The Biden administration on Thursday announced a series of new steps to ramp up its response to the monkeypox outbreak as cases continue to rise, making 1.8 million more monkeypox vaccine doses available and offering more courses of an extremely limited antiviral treatment to states and local jurisdiction.
There is a vaccine on a table.
As part of an accelerated Phase 4 of the White House, states will be able to order the two-dose regimen of the Jynneos vaccine next Monday.
The Department of Health and Human Services is launching a pilot program to give vaccine to men who have sex with men who have been disproportionately affected by the epidemic.
A new type of vaccine administration strategy that involves injecting the vaccine into the skin to help stretch out supplies is being provided by the White House.
50,000 courses of Tpoxx will be made available to jurisdictions with the most cases starting next week.
13,519. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. has confirmed a number of monkeypox and orthopoxviruses. There are no monkeypox cases in Wyoming. The CDC has race and ethnicity data for some 6,000 cases and 98% of them have been identified by men.
The White House expedited a shipment that was scheduled for October and will deliver another 150,000 Jynneos in September. The additional 1.8 million doses the government just made available will allow Jurisdictions that have used 70% of their current supply to place orders next week.
The White House declared a public health emergency on August 4 due to a vaccine shortage. The FDA issued an emergency use authorization to allow for changes to how the vaccine is administered. The new method has been used by health officials in Los Angeles and Fulton County, Georgia. Director Rochelle Walensky said that there is evidence that this method will produce the same immune response as the standard method. The White House faced a lot of criticism for a slow roll out of the vaccine.
The U.S. is dependent on a smallDanish company for the Jynneos vaccine. The company doesn't know if it can meet demand for monkeypox vaccine orders from countries around the world and is exploring outsourcing its production. Dawn O'Connell, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said that the U.S. is working closely with Bavarian Nordic to increase its capacity and set a requirement that they work with a domestic U.S. manufacturer for a July order of 2.5
The Biden administration has authorized a vaccine dose strategy to stretch supplies.
The first story on CNN was about Biden officials speeding up the monkeypox vaccine effort.
The monkeypox vaccine maker is in a race to meet demand.
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