At least 4 states now offering monkeypox vaccine to at-risk contacts

Key Facts

• Health officials tell CBS News that doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine are being offered to only at-risk close contacts of monkeypox cases in at least four jurisdictions for now: Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington.
• Not everyone who is assessed as a contact receives vaccine, because we know that monkeypox is not as easily transmissible as other viruses like COVID-19," Dr. Julia Murphy, public health veterinarian for the Virginia Department of Health, said in a statement.
• LUKAS BARTH / REUTERS "Right now, we have over a thousand doses of that available, and we expect that level to ramp up very quickly in the coming weeks as the company provides more doses to us," the CDC's Jennifer McQuiston told reporters on Monday.
• However, officials said that the discovery of potential community spread in the U.S. was not a cause — for now — to shift the country's monkeypox vaccination strategy.

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