U.S. Distributes Monkeypox Vaccines To Stop Spread
The U.S. government has announced that it would distribute monkeypox vaccines across the country to stop the spread of Monkeypox.Information Guide Nigeria
PEOPLES GAZETTE reports that according to the White House, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will immediately send 56,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine to areas with high transmission.
The White House further stated that it would focus on people most at risk and communities with the highest number of cases and an additional 240,000 doses would be distributed over the next few weeks, with even more to come this summer and fall.
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It added that a combined 1.6 million additional doses would become available over the coming months.
U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director, Rochelle Walensky said, “We are recommending that vaccines be provided to both people with known monkeypox exposures who are contacted by public health and also to those people who have been recently exposed to monkeypox”.
CDC revealed that the states with the highest numbers of monkeypox cases include California, New York, Illinois, and Florida, and Washington D.C.Jamb Result
According to PEOPLES GAZETTE, reports from CDC showed that since the first monkeypox case was confirmed in the U.S. on May 18, 306 cases had been reported in 28 states as of Tuesday.
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