LA City Council Ratifies Local Monkeypox Emergency

Health workers sit at a check-in table at a pop-up monkeypox vaccination clinic which opened today by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library in West Hollywood, Calif. on August 3, 2022 Mario Tama/Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council Aug. 9 ratified a declaration of local emergency issued last week by Mayor Eric Garcetti for the monkeypox outbreak.

The order allows the city to be prepared as vaccine availability increases and move quickly as circumstances evolve, according to a statement by Garcetti last week.