Duval County in Florida. Three other Florida counties also make the top 15.In Duval, only 6% of men who have sex with men report getting either one or both doses of the vaccine.
This makes it around 57% likely another outbreak may occur, according to the CDC. That’s higher than anywhere else in the US.Following this, Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties both have a 52% risk of outbreaks, while Pinellas has 48%.
In Hillsborough and Palm Beach, only around 15% of the local gay male population is vaccinated.Florida has had over 3,000 of the 30,000 mpox cases in the US.
Its low vaccination rate may have something to do with the state administration’s attitude toward vaccination and wider gay health issues.