‘Like winning the lottery’: Americans struggle to get monkeypox vaccines

Amid increases in appointment availability, experts and patients are observing that the vaccination process privileges a select few

It was like trying to win the lottery. It was so difficult."

On a hot Saturday afternoon last weekend, at New York City's Bronx high school of science, Alexx Dunn, 42, waited in line for a monkeypox vaccine at a public health immunization site.