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I know it sounds like i'm splitting hairs. but once someone is infected, that's isolation. that's not what they're talking about. this is quarantine when you've come in contact with someone. >> okay. understood. so monkeypox still an outbreak. we're hearing that lab techs, some are refusing to take blood from possible monkeypox patients? what's going on here? >> yes. both quest and lab core say, yes, many of our phlebotomists are not taking blood from patients. from people that lived through the hiv outbreak, this feels reminiscent of that. why would they be scared of taking blood from monkeyp...

Probably need more. also the sexual health clinics where a lot of monkeypox patients have been going, many of them don't bill private labs, like they don't send specimens to private labs because they say it's too much paperwork, they don't have the money to handle -- to have the staff to handle that paperwork so where many of these men are going with monkeypox, those clinics can't use the private labs so obviously that's a problem as well. brianna. >> certainly is. elizabeth, thank you for that report. >> thanks. extreme heat and drought forcing thousands of cattle ranchers to make a devasta...

Cases of monkeypox. many folks around the country are looking for a vaccine and can't find them. so one example, the monkeypox vaccine clinic at one of the main public vaccination sites in san francisco is closed today because they ran out of vaccines. "the new york times" reporting as monkeypox has spread in new york, 300,000 vac soon doses sat in denmark. the federal government adopted a wait-and-see response, calling for more vaccines to be delivered only after cases were growing exponentially. we want to bring in matt ford who had monkeypox and dr. roy gulleck who has been treating monkeyp...

Benefits of the vaccinations that we have, we can better understand transmission, and i'm sure that research and advice will change as we go through managing this outbreak. it is a call to arms internationally, and the uk hsa is working with and was the first to identify this group of monkeypox patients. it's been a day of more lengthy delays and frustration for thousands of people, trying to cross the channel. on what's been the busiest travel day of the year so far, some drivers have had to wait five to six hours before reaching the uk port of dover, or the eurotunnel terminal at folkestone....

Internationally together, we can ensure we understand the benefits of the vaccinations that we have. we can better understand transmission, and i'm sure that research and the advice will change as we go through managing this outbreak. so it is a call to arms internationally, and the uk is working with and where the first to identify this group of monkeypox patients. robbie de santos is the director of communications and external affairs at stonewall, an organisation supporting the freedoms of lgbtq+ people. i asked him how do we protect at risk groups without stigmatising them. i think the fir...