After the first 360 monkeypox vaccination appointments were booked within minutes, the additional 350 appointments available at noon Monday were also taken within 30 minutes. “We urgently need more monkeypox vaccine from the federal government in Vienna,” demanded health councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ).
The newly assigned doses will be vaccinated from Wednesday. Instead of the previous 18, 86 people a day can be vaccinated – the city of Vienna has adapted its infrastructure to the demand. However, as there are only 4340 MPX vaccine doses in all of Austria and the Ministry of Health has reserved two-thirds of these for post-exposure vaccinations, ie cases after proven contact with an infected person, it is not possible to roll out appointments for monkeypox vaccination. on a large scale.
“Frustrating in the end”
“With the vaccine doses made available so far, we cannot even protect a third of the people registered in Vienna, let alone the health professionals involved. As the situation is now, it is extremely frustrating for everyone involved.” , Hacker criticized.
Source: Krone
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