States begin ordering more monkeypox vaccine

The Department of Health and Human Services Monday began accepting orders from states and other jurisdictions for a portion of 442,000 additional doses of the JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine. To stretch available doses up to five fold, the Food and Drug Administration last week issued an emergency use authorization allowing health care providers to administer the vaccine intradermally to adults. HHS previously allocated almost 1.1 million doses of the vaccine to jurisdictions, and expects the manufacturer to deliver another 5 million doses through next year. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra this month declared the U.S. monkeypox outbreak, totaling almost 12,700 cases since May, a public health emergency.