White House to ship more monkeypox vaccine to states as cases rise

An additional 360,000 vials of the monkeypox vaccine will be available starting Monday. This could be enough to get his 1.8 million shots in the arm using the administration's new approach. The U.S. supply of the vaccine so far available was announced Thursday by the White House Monkeypox Response Team. and changed the recommendation from a deeper injection to a shallow intradermal injection that uses only one-fifth as much. The vaccine remains effective, but officials say the dose could be increased fivefold.

However, it is unclear how widely accepted this new approach is in the field.

Data not yet available Lagging behind the administration's approach to monkeypox, it is difficult to know how many more people could be vaccinated with this new strategy and where it is being implemented. It is impossible to know if the 360,000 vials it is shipping will actually be stretched in ground clinics to give the 1.8 million injections as the administration wants.

Some clinics are not yet trained in this injection method, and the reluctance of vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic to administer intradermally has added to the confusion.

} Still, government public health officials on Thursday asserted that local governments are on board, citing Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Fulton County, Georgia as examples.Data will come later this week, they said. Said.

and a new In an effort to increase the number of places participating in the approach, the White House has prescribed a new approach. Vaccine allocation is only available in states and jurisdictions that use an intradermal strategy and have already used 90% of the current vaccine supply.

Dr. Demetre Dascalakis, White House Deputy Monkeypox Coordinator, said: "I think it's exciting from an access standpoint."

The White House also celebrated the milestone of one million doses nationwide on Thursday.

"Overall, as of today, HHS has delivered nearly one million doses of the vaccine to states and cities," said the White House monkeypox coordinator. One Bob Fenton said at a press conference on Thursday.

"In fact, we have the largest his Jynneos vaccine program of any country in the world, and we're not done," he said.

And while the United States has the highest number of cases in the world, in 49 states he has over 13,500 cases.

Regarding treatment, the government has announced efforts to improve access on that front as well, placing his TPOXX in at-risk areas to provide patients with easy and quick access to antiviral drugs. announced that it will dispatch his 50,000 courses. It's been a challenge so far.

"We are staying on the gas to do all we can to end this pandemic," Fenton said.

As monkeypox continues to have an overwhelming impact on a man who has recently reported sexual contact with another man, the government has taken action to make a vaccine available to his LGBT community. We are also launching a new program for

"States and local governments should request and receive additional vaccines in the coming weeks and months to support vaccination efforts at large LGBT events. The administration is launching pop-up clinics at events like Black Pride in Atlanta and Southern Decadence in New Orleans, which have bore the brunt of monkeypox cases so far.

"HHS will make available Pride and other events attended by large numbers of gay and bisexual men. We are starting a pilot program that will provide up to 50,000 doses from the national stockpile," Fenton said.

The administration has highlighted pilot programs as an opportunity to bring vaccines to those most affected by the virus.

"By increasing access to vaccines, pilots and interventions such as these that try to bring vaccines closer to where people are, rather than people trying to find them all the time," Daskalakis said:

"It's not just about vaccines, it's about communicating clearly how vaccines work," he added. .