Los Angeles County this week received less than half the number of monkeypox vaccine doses than it anticipated.
this week received less than half the number of doses it originally anticipated, health officials said Wednesday, but it will still begin offering second doses of the two-shot regimen to those eligible for it., the county had anticipated receiving 14,000 vials of vaccine, enough to administer 70,000 shots. But the federal government notified the county this week it would actually only be receiving 5,600 vials, enough to administer 28,000 doses.
Despite the smaller-than-anticipated allocation, the county will still begin offering second doses of the vaccine to roughly 8,000 people eligible to receive them. The second doses will be available to people who received their first dose at least 28 days ago, with the shots available either through a personal health care provider or through the county's registration system, if they received the initial dose from the county.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week allowed the JYNNEOS vaccine to be administered between layers of skin, in what's called an intradermal injection. Previously, the vaccine was administered beneath the skin, in a subcutaneous injection. The intradermal method requires only roughly one-fifth the amount of vaccine required by the subcutaneous injection, authorities said.
A Los Angeles man warns the public that they don't want to go through what he went through during his battle with monkeypox.
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