Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2022
Monkeypox vaccines: here’s how many have been shipped and where as White House declares public health emergency
8 August 2022 - The US Government has shipped more than 602,000 doses of Jynneos monkeypox vaccines—the only shot specifically approved by the FDA to protect against monkeypox—to states and cities across the country since May, with more than 100,000 delivered to some of the hardest hit locations, after the White House declared the virus a public health emergency last week to confront vaccine shortages as cases mount.
The Federal Government is distributing 1.1 million million vaccines, administration officials said last week.
But several major cities have said they are still strapped for supplies, and a federal official coordinating the U.S. monkeypox response told the Washington Post recently the U.S. could soon face a “vaccine cliff.”
