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White House: US adds 1.8 million doses to monkeypox vaccine supply

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WASHINGTON — The United States will increase supplies of monkeypox vaccine by allowing an additional 1.8 million doses of the Bavarian Nordic Jynneos vaccine to be ordered starting Aug. 22, the White House said Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set aside 50,000 doses of the vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile, and states and Departments of Health where large events are held to attract at-risk groups to You can request an order in addition to The White House Monkeypox Response Coordinator, Bob Fenton, said in a briefing about existing quotas and supplies. It has produced 50,000 courses of antiviral treatment, which state and local health officials can begin ordering next week. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein and Kanishka Singh, Editing by Mark Porter)

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