San Francisco public health officials said they are running out of monkeypox vaccines and are urgently requesting additional ones from the federal government.

The city’s Department of Public Health received 2,308 doses of the Jynneos vaccine last week from federal supplies and distributed them to sites around the city, but many of those sites were already close to running out, with Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital having only 50 doses left as of Wednesday morning at its monkeypox clinic.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.