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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Eric Berger

Gay community braces for monkeypox as outbreak spreads in US

A person arrives to receive a monkeypox vaccination at the Northwell Health Immediate Care Center at Fire Island-Cherry Grove, in New York, on 15 July.
A person arrives to receive a monkeypox vaccination at the Northwell Health immediate care center at Fire Island-Cherry Grove, in New York, on 15 July. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

Earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, members of the gay and bisexual men’s social group Prime Timers St Louis, were “very, very worried” about Covid-19 because of underlying health conditions, said Bob Brinkman, 69, president of the group. That includes HIV, among other issues that compromised their immune systems.

But the group’s 141 members got vaccinated against Covid, he said, and in June, Prime Timers held its monthly potluck for the first time in more than two years.

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