Gov. Gavin Newsom said the declaration will help the state coordinate a government-wide response, seek more vaccines and lead outreach and education efforts on where people can get treatment and vaccines.
. Newsom's administration had said as recently as Friday that it was too soon for such a declaration.
“The monkeypox outbreak is an emergency, and we need to use every tool we have to control it,” Wiener said.allows emergency medical personnel to administer monkeypox vaccines that are approved by the federal government. In San Francisco, Peter Tran was among hundreds who lined up sometimes for hours to receive the monkeypox vaccine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Monday after the clinic was forced to close last week because it did not receive enough doses.
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