The first vaccines against the monkeypox are in my country.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215808)
Chile
October 9, 2022 6:44pm CST
Today, the first vaccines against the monkeypox arrived to my country.
And I´m in the age group to be able to get it first. Vaccines in my country are free but there is a way of getting them. Preferences are for people either with certain conditions and with certain ages. I meet both the age group and the health group. Other people that come first are people who work in health institutions (doctors, nurses and the like) and people who work in some places (such as my youngest daughter who is a judge).
I hope that, as soon as Dixie is here, she can take me. If she can´t, I´ll ask Claudia to do it.
How is it done in your country?
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
10 Oct 22
Vaccines are made available to certain professions first, and by age groups next.
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
10 Oct 22
Same hre. Except that some people such as I who fall into the age group AND have had cancer, got it first too.
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
10 Oct 22
@DaddyEvil It is a new virus. From the photos I have seen it is awful.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
10 Oct 22
@marguicha I haven't paid attention to much about monkey pox. It didn't seem important with Covid still making the rounds here.
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@RasmaSandra (73725)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Oct 22
Glad you can get that vaccine. You know I haven't even taken the COVID vaccine and don't plan on getting the flu shot so this will just pass me by too. From what I see online it is being offered in FLorida,
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
9 Oct 22
I never took the flu shot until the covid pandemics. Then all hospitals were full of people with covid and unless you were dying, you could not have assistance except online. So I had all the vaccines as a way of taking care of myself. In spite of the vaccine. all the members of my family got the covid. But all they had was a sort of flu. They did not even have to go to the hospital.
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@shaggin (71663)
• United States
10 Oct 22
@marguicha yes and I’m sure monkeypox will too just like the smallpox vaccine and other ones did 
@sublime03 (2339)
• Philippines
10 Oct 22
Wow you have it available there already. I have seen it on the news a few weeks back or has it been a month already. But lately I haven’t heard of the vaccine being available here. I guess we’ll be getting it as soon as the rest of the world has it already.
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
10 Oct 22
@sublime03 Some people here will not have the covid vaccine and it is not mandatory.
@sublime03 (2339)
• Philippines
10 Oct 22
@marguicha Oh wow. I feel like for monkeypox it may take a year before it is available here. A lot of people still hasn’t gotten the covid vaccine as well so I guess we aren’t in a hurry to get the monkeypox vaccine here.
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@wolfgirl569 (95700)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Oct 22
Here that one is available to people who are at high risk. Others can get it but are told they dont really need to.
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
10 Oct 22
I don´t yet know how the government will offer this vaccine. I only know that today some of it arrived.
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
10 Oct 22
This virus usually comes with tourists from elsewhere. We don´t have monkeys here either yet there have been a few cases of the monkeypox.
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@RubyHawk (99423)
• Atlanta, Georgia
10 Oct 22
@marguicha It could also happen here and I didn’t know.
@RebeccasFarm (86823)
• United States
10 Oct 22
All vaccines are the same here as far as health and age as far as I know, I am not certain of it though. But usually the health workers get them first.
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@marguicha (215808)
• Chile
10 Oct 22
In my country, the first plane with the vaccines arrived today.
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@cacay1 (83220)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
10 Oct 22
That's good to hear you have there now vaccine for monkey pox.
@aninditasen (15746)
• Raurkela, India
10 Oct 22
My country has still not started vaccinating from monkey pox.
@LindaOHio (157150)
• United States
10 Oct 22
We don't have the Monkeypox vaccinations yet. We will be getting our 2nd COVID-19 booster and flu shot soon.
