Health leaders discuss 2024 Medi-Cal Managed Care Contracts - State of Reform stateofreform.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stateofreform.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
big problem for this administration rather than issues like reproductive health care, rather than the aftermath of what we re seeing since roe was overturned. okay. thank you very much for explaining all of that to us. let s return now to our conversation about monkeypox. back with us is san francisco public health officer dr. susan phillip. thank you very much for your patience. i really appreciate that. can we just talk about what s happening in san francisco, because we have heard that there are very long lines stretching around the block for people to get vaccines. what s the status of that right now? are there still long lines? do you have enough supply? there are not long lines today because we ve administered all the vaccine we have at that particular clinic which is at san francisco general hospital. and we are awaiting our next allotment. we have received over 12,000 doses so far, but we have asked
policies and procedures. cities across the country have declared monkeypox a local health emergency, including san francisco. some local officials say they feel abandoned by the federal government. they want a national public health emergency declared. with me is dr. susan phillip. thanks so much for being here. let s start with that new cnn reporting that some lab techs are refusing to draw blood from potential patients. help us understand the truth versus the fear. is this a virus that s spread through blood, or is it skin to skin contact? the main route of transmission of the monkeypox virus, as we understand it currently, is through skin to skin contact. you know, we have not heard any cases of lab technicians or other medical care providers declining or being afraid of seeing patients with monkeypox in san francisco. i will say that all of us in medical training, lab techs,
As local clinics and hospitals start seeing lines of people looking for a monkeypox vaccine, San Francisco officials are demanding the feds speed up the process.
outstanding health officer, dr. susan phillip, for our outstanding work. her team worked really hard to ensure we got this information as quickly as possible. but i want to emphasize that this is not a surprise. for those who have been following this, we knew that omicron was going to be here. we thought it was already here. we just hadn t detected it yet. so this is cause for concern, but is also certainly not a cause for us to panic. we are prepared here in the city for this. with regard to the case itself, the person recently traveled to south africa and developed symptoms upon their return. and they did the right thing and got tested and reported their travel history. they have received a full dose of the moderna vaccine, but no booster. they had mild symptoms and thankfully have now recovered. contacts have and are being notif