Demand for the monkeypox vaccine in the U.S. is outpacing the nation’s supply as the outbreak grows nationally and globally.
The U.S. has ordered nearly 7 million doses overall, but most of that won’t arrive for months. About 372,000 doses have been received by the federal government so far, and 156,000 doses have been distributed nationally, according“We don’t yet have all the vaccine that we would like in this moment,” Rochelle Walensky, MD, the CDC director, told reporters on Friday.
“It’s like saying we have a tanker of water coming next week when the fire is happening today,” Gregg Gonsalves, PhD, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, told the newspaper. Most cases are among gay or bisexual men, and men who have sex with men, Walensky told reporters, and the numbers are expected to rise in coming weeks.latest CDC data shows
“Our window of opportunity to control it is rapidly closing,” Anne Rimoin, PhD, an epidemiologist and monkeypox expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, told theThe CDC has teamed up with five major commercial testing companies, including Labcorp and the Mayo Clinic, to expand the nation’s testing capacity. The U.S. can now test about 70,000 samples per week, up from 6,000 at the beginning of the outbreak.
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