The Biden administration plans to issue an emergency declaration that will allow healthcare workers to extract five doses from a one-dose vial of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine by changing the method of administration, according to multiple outlets.
The change in methods comes after Biden officials have faced criticism for what some critics view as a sluggish rollout of the vaccine.As of last Monday, the U.S. had 8,934 confirmed cases of monkeypox and orthopoxvirus—the class of viruses that monkeypox belongs to—across every state except Wyoming,Key Background
The White House declared monkeypox a public health emergency last week in an effort to streamline resources to tackle the outbreak. The Biden administration hasmore than 602,000 monkeypox vaccines to date and has about 1.1 million available, though that’s only one-third of the amount needed for the estimated population at highest risk in the current global outbreak: men who have sex with men, and in particular, those with multiple sexual partners. The U.S.