U.S. to Provide 50,000 Monkeypox Vaccines for Pride and Other Events With High Attendance by Gay Men

The U.S. has delivered more than 1 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine across the country since the outbreak started in May, according to HHS.

The U.S. has also delivered 22,000 courses of the antiviral treatment tecovirimat so far and will make another 50,000 courses available for state and local jurisdictions to order next week, according to HHS.

Walensky said the CDC is working closely with local officials ahead of Atlanta Black Pride, which begins Aug. 31, and Southern Decadence in New Orleans, which starts Sept. 1. The decision to allow intradermal injections has significantly expanded the limited vaccine supply because this method of administration uses a fifth of the normal dose volume. That means five doses can now be extracted from each vaccine vial, according to Robert Fenton, the White House monkeypox response coordinator.

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