Why 100 million vaccines the US already has aren’t being used for monkeypox

Why 100 million vaccines the US already has aren’t being used for monkeypox The U.S. already has 100 million doses in its stockpile. So why aren’t they being used to vaccinate the at-risk population? tlejeune The Hill

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“That is an option,” Wiener told KRON. “The challenge with it is it’s very complicated to administer it. It’s numerous shots, it’s not just like one, so you have to do a whole bunch of injections at the injection site, and because it’s a live virus, it could have significant side effects. For healthy people, they’ll almost certainly be fine, but it does have significant side effects, and the site of the vaccination can be contagious for the virus that is used in the vaccine, so people have to cover it, be very protective of other people in their household.”...