FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to Stretch Monkeypox Vaccine to Meet Demand

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to Stretch Monkeypox Vaccine to Meet Demand
Test tubes labeled "Monkeypox virus positive" are seen in this illustration taken on May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Caden Pearson
By Caden Pearson, Reporter
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Faced with a monkeypox vaccine supply and demand problem, the White House’s newly minted National Monkeypox Response team on Tuesday implemented a plan to stretch the current vaccine supply by up to five-fold.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to be administered by intradermal injection, which requires one-fifth of the dose of a normal subcutaneous injection.

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