The FDA plans to allow a lower dose of the monkeypox vaccine to stretch out limited supplies
U.S. health officials have declared monkeypox a public-health emergency, after the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency in late July. WSJ explains what you should look out for and what scientists know about how the virus is spreading.
Illustration: Adele MorganThe Food and Drug Administration adopted a new strategy for stretching outUnder the changes, patients will get injections of the vaccine shallowly into the skin, rather than the normal method deeper into the layer of fat under the skin. Each of the injections would be one-fifth of the normal dose.
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