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Monkeypox vaccination effort shifts towards maintaining demand

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As ensuring adequate supply and distribution of the monkeypox virus vaccine becomes “less of an issue,” efforts have shifted toward maintaining demand, Dr.

Demetre Daskalakis, White House national monkeypox response deputy coordinator, said on Sept. 7. This will mean, “making sure that people know that a effective and safe vaccine is available for those that could benefit,” he said, during a press briefing that also featured National Response Coordinator Dr.

Bob Fenton and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The officials said they were pleased with the impact of their targeted allocations of vaccine doses to events with large numbers of gay and bisexual men who have sex with men, populations considered high risk for MPV infection.  “Thousands of shots were administered” at Southern Decadence in New Orleans, Black Pride in Atlanta and Oakland Pride in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fenton said.

These efforts “were, frankly, wildly successful,” Daskalakis said. During a Q&A with reporters that followed the briefing, Daskalakis addressed questions about the racial disparities that have begun to emerge with respect to infection and vaccination rates.

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