Sen. Pat­ty Mur­ray urges HHS to ramp up mon­key­pox re­sponse as cas­es pass 2,100

As mon­key­pox cas­es sur­pass 2,100 in the US, Sen. Pat­ty Mur­ray (D-WA) said in a let­ter to HHS sec­re­tary Xavier Be­cer­ra that the agency’s cur­rent re­sponse is not enough.

The let­ter comes days af­ter BAR­DA re­quest­ed 2.5 mil­lion more dos­es of Bavar­i­an Nordic’s Jyn­neos shot, the on­ly vac­cine ap­proved by the FDA to pro­tect against mon­key­pox. While the US has con­firmed 2,108 cas­es, ac­cord­ing to the CDC, the glob­al case count sits at about 14,000.

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