Starting Monday, an additional 360,000 vials of monkeypox vaccine will be available, potentially enough for 1.8 million shots in arms using the administration’s new approach and a number that will nearly triple the U.S. supply of vaccines available so far, the White House Monkeypox Response Team announced Thursday.
The expansion of supply follows a strategy the administration rolled out last week that changed the recommendation for how to inject the vaccines, moving from a deeper injection to a shallower, intradermal one that uses only one-fifth of the vaccine, but still carries the same efficacy, officials say, allowing the administration to stretch doses five-fold.
More than 14 thousand cases have been confirmed in the US, with the virus disproportionately affecting people of color according to data presented by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
Source-ABC
