NYC Monkeypox: New vaccination sites, clinic opening

September 04, 2022

Monkeypox cases continue to rise in New York City, which is now the epicenter of the national outbreak. Three new mass vaccination sites are opening this weekend at Aviation High School in Queens, the Bushwick Education Campus in Brooklyn, and the Bronx High School of Science. A new clinic is also opening at NYC Health & Hospitals/Gotham Health, Vanderbilt, on Staten Island. RELATED: NYC monkeypox cases double again; vaccine website crashesThe City Health Department is now using its own appointment scheduling website after blaming third-party vendors for website crashes. Some, though, were fortunate enough to evade those issues, including Andrew Vitovitch who got his first dose in Harlem.