HHS Will Expand Access To Monkeypox Vaccine In High-Risk Areas

By Beth Wang / June 28, 2022 at 7:45 PM
HHS will rapidly expand access to hundreds of thousands of doses of the FDA-approved Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to areas with the highest transmission as part of the Biden administration’s national monkeypox vaccine strategy, which aims to vaccinate and protect people who are at high risk for the disease, administration officials said Tuesday evening (June 28). The agency will allocate 296,000 doses to states and jurisdictions over the coming weeks. Of that total, 56,000 doses will be allocated immediately. Over the...


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