As monkeypox cases continue to increase among high-risk people, federal officials on Tuesday announced they will stretch limited vaccine supplies by giving just one-fifth the current dosage.
The move would quintuple the existing supply of monkeypox vaccine doses, a priority in hard-hit places such as Los Angeles County and San Francisco, where the virus has been rapidly increasing in communities where men have sex with men and vaccines remain in short supply.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency-use authorization allowing health care providers to use the new vaccination technique for high-risk adults.
