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Will Monkeypox Concerns Affect Pride Weekend in New York? - The New York Times

Will Monkeypox Concerns Affect Pride Weekend in New York? - The New York Times

Will Monkeypox Concerns Affect Pride Weekend in New York? - The New York Times
Jun 25, 2022 1 min, 51 secs

people in New York City, the last Friday in June is usually a joyful day.

Further complicating people’s attitudes heading into the weekend are questions and concerns surrounding monkeypox, a virus that is disproportionately affecting gay men.

On Thursday, New York City health officials expanded access to a monkeypox vaccine, offering it to men who have had multiple or anonymous male sexual partners in the last 14 days.

As of Friday, 39 people in New York City had tested positive for orthopoxvirus, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which added that all 39 cases were believed to be monkeypox.

According to the World Health Organization, monkeypox is transmitted from person to person via close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials.

Though anyone can contract the virus, it is currently spreading primarily through communities of men who have sex with men, officials have said.

As photos of long lines of people waiting to be vaccinated at a sexual health clinic in Manhattan circulated on social media, and as news spread of monkeypox cases throughout the world, some New Yorkers began to reconsider their plans for Pride weekend.

Joseph Osmundson, a clinical assistant professor of biology at New York University and a queer health care advocate, said that growing concerns about monkeypox had affected the Pride plans of “almost everyone” he knew.

Finley King, 24, a film production assistant, said that both monkeypox concerns and the Roe news were affecting his plans for this weekend, but that he would feel relatively comfortable attending a protest and standing on the sidelines, or going to an outdoor party.

While Covid-19 is a tiny RNA virus that can spread through aerosols, monkeypox is a larger DNA virus that is transmitted mostly through close physical contact and has a much smaller mutation rate than RNA viruses.

The only facility in New York administering the vaccine, the city-run Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic in Manhattan, had to start turning people away almost immediately after opening up vaccination to eligible New Yorkers on Thursday

Jonathan Valdez, 36, a content creator and podcast host, said that for the first time, a friend of his told him he was glad to be missing New York City Pride, citing concerns about monkeypox

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