As monkeypox cases continue to mount, governments of wealthy nations have been scrambling to buy vaccines. But what's available for the rest of the world?
coordinates the introduction of new vaccines in Africa for the World Health Organization. Here are eight takeaways from our conversation.In theory there are at least three existing vaccines that could be used to protect people from monkeypox. But one is not recommended for widespread use. It's a vaccine against smallpox called
Linley is skeptical that Bavarian Nordic's production capacity is as high as the company claims."At least from what's known about Bavarian Nordic's deliveries [to date], they are significantly lower than we would expect" if the company really were able to produce 40 million annually, he says. As to what Bavarian Nordic's true capacity is, Linley thinks it might be more like 20 million annually.
Take the U.S., which with nearly 10,000 cases has the world's highest count and which appears to have the largest contract with Bavarian Nordic. The U.S. had virtually no doses at the start of the outbreak in May. Since then, only about 1.1 million doses have been delivered. U.S. officials say another 150,000 doses should arrive in September and another150,000 before the end of the year, bringing the expected U.S. supply to just 1.4 million doses.
In the meantime, to stretch the current supply, U.S. officials are supplementing the one-fifth dose strategy with yet another plan: They've instructed Bavarian Nordic to test about 1 million expired JYNNEOS doses in the U.S. reserve to see if they are still usable.
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