Last week on June 28, the Biden administration said it would be expanding the deployment of the Jynneos vaccine and made 56,000 doses immediately available to states as monkeypox cases continued to rise in the United States.
Now, more doses are on the way. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Thursday that an additional 144,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine will begin to ship from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) on Monday, July 11.
As of July 7 at 2 p.m. ET, there were about 700 confirmed cases of monkeypox across 30 states as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
California and New York had the most confirmed cases, with 136 and 131 cases, respectively. Illinois had the third most with 91 confirmed cases, followed by Florida (72) and Washington, D.C. (60). No other state had more than 30 confirmed cases, while most were in the single digits.
The HHS said in their news release that there has been more than 41,000 doses already delivered throughout the country from the SNS. Steve Adams, director of the SNS, said in a statement that they are doing everything possible to get the vaccines "in jurisdictions that need them the most."
"We are using every tool we have to increase and accelerate JYNNEOS vaccine availability in jurisdictions that need them the most," Adams said. "In less than ten days, we’ve made available 200,000 JYNNEOS vaccine doses in communities where transmission has been the highest and with high-risk populations, and significantly scaled testing availability and convenience.
"Together, these are critical components of our overall effort to combat this virus, and we will continue to coordinate closely with states and jurisdictional partners to make sure they have the vaccines, testing, and treatments needed to respond to the current outbreak."
The HHS went on to say that they plan to make 1.9 million doses of the vaccine available this year, and will have "an additional 2.2 million available during the first half of 2023."
According to the CDC, monkeypox is usually spread by prolonged, direct contact with a person who has an infectious rash or scab. Monkeypox symptoms can include a fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.
The most clear sign of monkeypox is "a rash that can look like pimples or blisters that appears on the face, inside the mouth, and on other parts of the body, like the hands, feet, chest, genitals, or anus," according to the CDC.
"The rash goes through different stages before healing completely. The illness typically lasts 2-4 weeks. Sometimes, people get a rash first, followed by other symptoms. Others only experience a rash."
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