Health Dept. offering monkeypox vaccinations
A nurse administers the monkeypox vaccine at a walk-in clinic at the North Jersey Community Research Initiative in Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. The Shelby County Health Department has started vaccinating residents here against monkeypox. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
As of Friday, Aug. 12, 171 Shelby County residents had been vaccinated against monkeypox.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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