Demand for the monkeypox vaccine continues to rise in the US as the Biden administration fails to keep supplies up.
The US Department of Health and Human Services reports that “the number of doses of monkeypox vaccine distributed across the US has more than tripled since last week,” according to CNN, but supply has yet to match demand.
While not a sexually transmitted disease that is transmitted only through skin contact, the virus is most common among gay men in urban areas such as New York and Washington, DC, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). . It is estimated that more than 1.5 million men who have sex with men are eligible for the monkeypox vaccine.
132,000 doses of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine have been distributed nationwide, not enough to meet current demand.
Dr. David Holland, chief clinical director of the Fulton County, Georgia Board of Health, told CNN his office “received a batch of 200 vaccines, and the meetings for it took about an hour and a half.”
Washington DC received the most vaccines, followed by New York. The CDC said it will distribute vaccines based on “the number of at-risk cases and populations in a given region.”
From New York City Mayor Eric Adams to California Senator Scott Wiener, Democrats have urged the Biden administration to step up efforts to meet the need for vaccines.
“While we appreciate the nearly 7,000 doses of vaccine shipped to New York so far and the roughly 14,500 doses we expect to receive over the weekend, we need more to slow the spread and protect groups. risk. population,” Eric Adams wrote about management.
“All appointments were accepted within 10 minutes of the release of new appointments for our vaccine clinics last week,” he added.
HORSE joint statementCalifornia State Senator Scott Wiener (D) and Congressman Matt Haney (D) scolded the Biden administration for “not ordering enough doses of vaccine to prepare for this foreseeable outbreak.”
Haney and Wiener wrote:
We have very little time to prevent this epidemic and prevent it from getting out of control and possibly becoming endemic. The good news is that we have an effective vaccine to prevent monkey disease. The bad news is that the federal government has failed again in public health, this time by not ordering enough vaccine doses to prepare for this predictable outbreak.
Vaccination is how we fought monkeypox before it spread widely.
The Fed should speed up vaccine supply and distribution.
We need to aggressively promote the vaccine locally.
Working together, we will protect each other.@MattHaneySF and my expression: pic.twitter.com/qAupBRQzO2
– Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) 8 July 2022
On Wednesday, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said more vaccines will be delivered from Denmark in a few weeks.
“The problem is we need to find more vaccines,” said Jha. “We’re incredibly committed to getting doses of vaccines in the United States and places like New York. Do we want to get more doses? Of course. We had stocks and needed more. We got more.”
Source: Breitbart
