Re:The U.S. may be losing the fight against monkeypox, scien...
by perardi on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:34PM
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Also from the Times: “Will There Be Enough Monkeypox Vaccine?”
Jynneos, the company that makes the better vaccine for monkeypox, was in the middle of refurbishing the one plant that produces it.
“The manufacturing facility that could make more has been shut for a planned expansion since last August. The facility is not expected to reopen until late this summer at the earliest, and additional vaccine manufactured there may not become available for at least six months after that.”
Will this actually become a serious pandemic? I dunno. I have friends who have contracted this. But they did so at…um…let’s say underground parties. I’m really unclear if this will spread to the general population, as it is primarily spreading within men-who-have-sex with men networks. (My friend who got it over Memorial Day shook it off pretty easily, other acquaintances contracted it too recently to judge the full course of the disease yet.)
Jynneos, the company that makes the better vaccine for monkeypox, was in the middle of refurbishing the one plant that produces it.
“The manufacturing facility that could make more has been shut for a planned expansion since last August. The facility is not expected to reopen until late this summer at the earliest, and additional vaccine manufactured there may not become available for at least six months after that.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/health/monkeypox-vaccine-...)
So that’s a bit of a problem. We do have a smallpox vaccine that seems to have significant cross-reactivity to monkeypox, but, the side effects can be unpleasant. (https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/monkeypox-vac...)
Will this actually become a serious pandemic? I dunno. I have friends who have contracted this. But they did so at…um…let’s say underground parties. I’m really unclear if this will spread to the general population, as it is primarily spreading within men-who-have-sex with men networks. (My friend who got it over Memorial Day shook it off pretty easily, other acquaintances contracted it too recently to judge the full course of the disease yet.)