As many as 1 million high-risk men may be unable to get two Jynneos doses for months.
Even with the latest shipments, there are only enough vials of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine to cover about a third of the estimated 1.6 million gay and bisexual men who officials consider at highest risk and who are being urged to get the shots.
Nearly 5,200 people in the United States, mostly gay and bisexual men, have been diagnosed with monkeypox, which can “We would expect cases to continue to go up in the next several days or weeks as testing has becoming more widely available,” a CDC spokesperson said Friday.
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