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Biden administration plans to ...Biden administration plans to allow new injection method for monkeypox vaccine
The Silicon Review
09 August, 2022
Author:
The Silicon Review Team
Two federal officials were appointed to coordinate his administration's response to monkeypox
The Biden administration has decided to expand its limited supply of monkeypox vaccines by allowing a different method of injection. This method uses only one-fifth as much per shot. The United States declared monkeypox a public health emergency last week in an effort to bolster the U.S. response to contain the outbreak. For U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize the intradermal injection, which requires injecting one-fifth of the current dose into the skin instead of a full dose into underlying fat, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will need to issue a new emergency declaration, the report said, allowing regulators to invoke the FDA's emergency use powers. White House, HHS, and FDA did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
Earlier this month, two federal officials were appointed to coordinate his administration's response to monkeypox following declarations of emergencies by New York, Illinois, and California. Recently, more than 80 countries have reported outbreaks of viral disease. The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency, as confirmed cases crossed 27,800, and non-endemic countries reported their first deaths.
