‘I’m one of the lucky ones’: vaccines scarce as US monkeypox cases rise

The US has nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of the virus, but getting vaccinated has not always been straightforward

For 67-year-old Peter Madero, getting a monkeypox vaccination from the Chelsea sexual health clinic in Manhattan on Friday was a matter of staying protected amid increasing cases of virus as it spreads across the country and world.

But Madero admits that he was one of the lucky ones", successfully securing a vaccine after a month of waiting.