Public health officials are tailoring outreach for upcoming events attended primarily by Black and Hispanic individuals, said Demetre Daskalakis, the White House deputy monkeypox response coordinator. population while Blacks and Hispanics account for 13% and 19%, respectively. Nearly 35% of monkeypox patients are white, 33% are Hispanic and 28% are Black, according to CDC data. The outbreak is disproportionately impacting Black and Hispanic communities. The median age of patients is 35 years old. The overwhelming majority of infections, 98%, are in men and 93% of patients who provided their gender and recent sexual history were men who have sex with men. has reported more than 13,500 cases of monkeypox across 49 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the CDC. 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. The federal government will make another 1.8 million doses available for states and other local jurisdictions to order on Monday.
has delivered more than 1 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine across the country since the outbreak started in May, according to the Health and Human Services Department. It takes two weeks after the second dose to produce the maximum immune response to protect against the virus. The vaccine is administered in two doses given 28 days apart.
is deploying the Jynneos vaccine, made by the Danish biotech company Bavarian Nordic, to immunize people against monkeypox. It's particularly important to avoid behavior that increases the risk of infection between the first and second dose of the vaccine, she said.
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"I want to emphasize that while we are offering the vaccine at these events to those at high risk, this is a two-dose vaccine series and receiving the vaccine at these events will not provide protection at the event itself," Walensky said. Monkeypox is primarily spreading through close contact during sex right now. The education outreach includes tips on safer sex, including temporarily limiting sexual partners during the current outbreak, according to the CDC director.
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