Monkeypox vaccine: 780K doses will become available as soon as Friday
The government distributed 300,000 doses this month and announced Wednesday another 786,000 are available – bringing the total to over 1.1 million.
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The government distributed 300,000 doses this month and announced Wednesday another 786,000 are available – bringing the total to over 1.1 million.
More than 780,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine would be made available on Friday, the Biden administration announced, amid fears that the government has not reacted swiftly enough to the country's rapidly growing monkeypox outbreak.
Cases of the once-rare monkeypox disease more than tripled in 10 days to 109, mostly in North Jersey.
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