Other jurisdictions already have shifted to prioritize first doses, including New York and San Francisco, as well as the United Kingdom and Canada.
The strategy, announced Monday, means the District will rely on the federal government to provide enough shots for second doses, according to a statement from the D.C. Department of Health.doses of Jynneos, the only vaccine specifically approved to prevent monkeypox, as of Sunday, Patrick Ashley, senior deputy director at the D.C. Department of Health, said in an interview Monday.
In another briefing Monday, Jha said the Food and Drug Administration was working quickly to “finalize approval of nearly 800,000 additional doses, and we are getting ready to ship these doses to jurisdictions once FDA has finally approved them.” He added that he hoped the additional doses would be available in the “next few days.”As of Monday, 172 cases of monkeypox have been reported in the District, which has more cases per capita than any state.
Federal officials have not said how many doses the District and states will receive in the next shipment, but Ashley said that if the District receives enough vaccine, some people will get their second doses on time.“That’s part of the challenge," he said. “We want as much vaccine as we can get, and we want to get this out as quickly as possible. Timing is very critical. The quicker we can get it into arms, the quicker that we can contain this.
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