The Biden administration said Thursday it will try to super-charge its monkeypox response by making an additional 1.8 million doses of the Jynneos vaccine available to states, starting Monday, and setting aside tens of thousands of doses for places that are hosting gay pride events.
Officials will also deliver about 50,000 courses of the TPOXX treatment for the disease — an amount that is nearly four times as many courses as confirmed cases in the U.S.
The distribution will use a formula that bases 75% of distribution on the number of cases in a jurisdiction and 25% on the number of individuals who are at the highest risk of contracting the virus.