Labcorp is testing for monkeypox, and a total of 200,000 vaccine doses are being distributed, but that still may not be enough to keep pace with rising infections.
Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post via Getty fileThe U.S. is stepping up its efforts to address the snowballing monkeypox outbreak — the country's largest to date by far, with 700 confirmed cases.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it will distribute 144,000 doses of the two-shot Jynneos vaccine, which is approved for monkeypox and smallpox, to cities and states starting Monday. That's on top of 56,000 doses the department made available last week, of which 41,000 have been delivered.that Labcorp has begun testing for monkeypox at its main lab in North Carolina, which can accept samples from across the country.
Four other commercial labs are expected to begin testing in the coming weeks, as well, according to HHS.where the virus isn’t endemic, according to the CDC, with more than 7,200 cases globally. "We have a very good chance at snuffing out this outbreak if we apply the knowledge and the resources that we have appropriately. I’m still hopeful that we can accelerate contact tracing and the timing of detection to quarantine, isolation and vaccination of close contacts," said Amira Albert Roess, a professor of global health and epidemiology at George Mason University.But so far, U.S. vaccination and testing efforts have hit bottlenecks.
Monkeypox vaccines aren’t available to the general public; rather, several cities are distributing shots to people at high risk of contracting the virus. They include those who have had close physical contact with people known to have been infected, as well as men who have sex with men and who've recently had multiple partners. The virus has thus far disproportionately affected gay and bisexual men.
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