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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Courtney Kueppers | WBEZ

As monkeypox cases plateau, Chicago suspending large-scale vaccination drives

Bottles containing of vaccine for Monkeypox lie on a table on July 28 at a Monkeypox vaccination site at TaskForce center, 9 N. Cicero Ave. in West Garfield Park. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Chicago’s top public health official Tuesday urged eligible residents who haven’t yet received the monkeypox vaccine to do so this week before the city pivots its mass vaccination sites at city colleges back to COVID-19 after Labor Day.

“We would love to get a lot of folks vaccinated [for monkeypox] this weekend because we’re going to need to turn especially some of these larger clinics to help meet presumed demand for the updated COVID vaccine,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, who herself is recovering from a recent case of COVID.

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