Sen. McGuire hosts town hall to address new booster, rising monkeypox infections; Mendocino County confirms one case

MENDOCINO Co., 9/9/22 — State Senator Mike McGuire, a North Coast Democrat, and Dr. Timothy Brewer, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles, answered questions about Covid-19 and monkeypox in a virtual town hall Thursday night. Coincidentally, the county health department confirmed its first case of monkeypox Friday. 

Maya Stuart, a health department spokesperson, said the department administered treatment to the affected individual the day test results confirming the diagnosis were received.