‘Trying To Achieve Vaccine Equity’: Liberal City Plans To Factor Race Into Monkeypox Vaccine Decisions

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A top health official in San Francisco said the city was using race as a criterion to determine priority for monkeypox vaccines during a Wednesday CNN appearance.

“Latinx men, Latino men in San Francisco are disproportionately impacted,” Dr. Susan Philip, a health officer for the City and County of San Francisco, told CNN host Alisyn Camerota. “So we’re working with our community organizations to give them appointment slots where people don’t have to wait in line and we are trying to achieve vaccine equity that way so everyone has a chance to get the vaccine.”


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