The White House announced that 1.8 million more monkeypox vaccine doses would be available to order by local and state jurisdictions running low on supply starting next week.
Acknowledging the seriousness of the monkeypox outbreak in the United States, the White House announced today that 1.8 million more vaccine doses will be available to order by local and state jurisdictions that are running low on supply starting next week., the only treatment currently FDA-approved for monkeypox, nationwide.
The Biden administration has also increased testing capacity from 6,000 tests per week to 80,000 tests per week,Also, in a move to target people at highest risk, the CDC plans to partner with large LGBTQ+ events in the coming weeks and months to offer testing and vaccinations on-site. To date, 93% of reported monkeypox cases involve men who have sex with men, Walensky said.
Some follow-up will be required."We recognize that there are going to be some people who have traveled to large-scale events — and that they're going to have to receive dose one of their vaccine and then they will necessarily receive dose two at their local jurisdiction," Walensky said.The situation with monkeypox is"fluid," Walensky and other government officials acknowledged during the briefing.
The government will determine how many doses of TPOXX a particular location gets based on a formula that considers the number of local cases and the number of people at high risk in that location, including people withor other immunocompromising conditions, said Dawn O'Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at Health and Human Services.
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