Top health officials in the Biden administration are weighing whether to save vaccine doses that could be used to fight monkeypox for a potential future smallpox outbreak
Now, some administration officials worry that holding off on bottling the rest of its supply could put them at risk of being caught shorthanded once again. Others believe that there are already sufficient doses to fight the disease, especially as its spread has slowed, and that the government needs to maintain its defenses against the prospect of a major bioterror attack.
Monkeypox is currently circulating almost exclusively within the community of men who have sex with men. But there remains some concern the outbreak could spill into the broader population, sending case counts soaring and the administration in need of more supply. In the first several weeks of the outbreak, the Biden administration struggled to get doses out to at-risk Americans, in large part because it needed to find other manufacturers to help scale what’s known as the “fill and finish” process — or the bottling of the doses. For weeks, the Biden team has worked to identify additional facilities in the U.S. to help, and last week finalized a deal with Michigan’s Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing.
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