CHARLOTTE — 2,000 people received the monkeypox vaccine at this weekend’s Charlotte Pride Festival in uptown, as people crowded the streets for the event for the first time since 2019.
Mecklenburg County Public Health announced last week it would be disturbing the vaccines after the White House indicated that it would be working with North Carolina to develop a plan to administer the vaccine during the Charlotte Pride Festival and Parade.
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Festival goer Abe Gadikian welcomed the monkeypox distribution at the event.
“I think there’s a lot of questions as far as where to get it, how to get it and doing an event like this, and having people reaching out and telling people where to get it when to get it, especially if you can get it right now, you don’t have to make an appointment, made it very easy,” Gadikian said.
Organizers say 275,000 people attended the Festival, which broke the previous record of two-hundred-thousand people in 2019.
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