(Reuters) – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday it had instructed a monkeypox vaccine manufacturer to deliver an additional 36,000 doses this week as part of a drawdown from a U.S. vaccine stockpile.
In a statement, HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said the manufacturer, Bavarian Nordic, “holds over one million additional government-owned doses and the equivalent of 16.4 million doses that could be filled and finished upon request by the government.”
(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago and Susan Heavy and Rami Ayyub in Washington)
