What went wrong with the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine?

Limited testing, a delayed FDA inspection and technical issues held back the timely distribution of monkeypox vaccines in the U.S.

A series of crucial mistakes in the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine has significantly inhibited America’s ability to distribute doses and prevent the troubling and in some cases extremely painful disease from becoming endemic.

In the meantime, the virus has deepened its hold on the country, with confirmed cases rising tenfold in the last month, to a total of more than 1,000 as of Thursday, though that’s almost certainly an undercount. Vaccine seekers have become fearful and frustrated as they watch friends and loved ones get sick or they themselves develop uncomfortable lesions.

Monkeypox cases on the rise in the U.S.July 13, 202201:32“I actually struggled with sleep the past couple of nights,” said Philip Cheng, a urologist from New Jersey who spent three weeks looking for a dose in New York City before finally booking an appointment. “The number of cases in New York has reached a level where a lot of people now know someone who has it.”

In a pattern familiar from the Covid pandemic, the missteps started with limited testing capacity. The U.S. also didn’t order more monkeypox vaccine doses to add to its stockpile until June, even though the virus started spreading in May. In addition, regulators did not finish inspecting a key Denmark facility manufacturing monkeypox vaccines until Saturday, leaving 1.1 million ready-to-distribute doses still waiting to be shipped to the U.S.

Even when tens of thousands of doses were finally sent to states this month, the allocations quickly fell out of step with the geographic distribution of cases. A confusing patchwork of vaccine appointment systems was then marred by technical issues.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/went-wrong-rollout-monkeypox-vaccine-rcna38017


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