U.S. to get 36,000 more monkeypox vaccine doses this week, HHS says

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(Reuters) – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday it had instructed a monkeypox vaccine manufacturer to deliver an additional 36,000 doses this week as part of a drawdown from a U.S. vaccine stockpile.

In a statement, HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said the manufacturer, Bavarian Nordic, “holds over one million additional government-owned doses and the equivalent of 16.4 million doses that could be filled and finished upon request by the government.”