A President Biden and his entire administration. Tonight todays announcements reinforce our whole approach to government and accelerating our response. You will hear from fda commissioner, the cdc director, and myself. Next to me we have the deputy coordinator of the white house monkeypox response and dr. Peter marx from fda and the hhs assistant secretary for preparedness response here to answer some questions. With that, i will turn it over to secretary becerra. Thanks very much. Let me begin with what up before. Every american should take epoque seriously, and every american must do their part to help us combat monkeypox. On may 18, the first case of monkeypox was reported in the u. S. Today we have some in on hundred cases that have been reported. 8900 cases reported. Within two days, we began to ship out vaccines to the states ever asking for help. Today we have made more than 1. 1 million Vaccine Doses Available throughout the country and we have delivered more than 620 thousand
Sellout and the white house now and you dont care. You want to come after us, come after trump . What we n we take you live now to the white house for an update from the Monkeypox Response Team and Public Health officials. You are watching live coverage, here on cspan. This has been a top priority a President Biden and his entire administration. Tonight todays announcements reinforce our whole approach to government and accelerating our response. You will hear from fda commissioner, the cdc director, and myself. Next to me we have the deputy coordinator of the white house monkeypox response and dr. Peter marx from fda and the hhs assistant secretary for preparedness response here to answer some questions. With that, i will turn it over to secretary becerra. Thanks very much. Let me begin with what up before. Every american should take epoque seriously, and every american must do their part to help us combat monkeypox. On may 18, the first case of monkeypox was reported in the u. S. Tod
From the start, our vaccination strategy has been centered around urging approximately 1. 6 million americans, including gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, and others with a known highrisk exposure to monkeypox. To do that, we have worked nonstop to scale up access to the vaccine in the u. S. We have made more vaccine available to any other country in the world. Because of that, the authorization of safe and effective vaccination, we can accelerate the number of shots in arms with the urgency this outbreak warrants. As of this past monday, we have made 1. 1 billion vials of vaccine available, the same total number of files that jurisdictions were expecting before fda approval of Intradermal Administration. As the administrator will discuss shortly, we are approaching having enough vaccine for everyone in the at Risk Community to receive two foot to receive two doses of vaccine. Weve also seen progress in intradermal vaccine in the past two weeks. As of today, 75 of juri
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Todays announcement reinforces our approach to scaling a response. You will hear today from secretary pissarro, cdc director belinsky and myself. We also have next to me the deputy coordinator of the monkeypox response. With that, i will turn it over to secretary becerra. Thanks very much. Let me begin with what i said before. Every american should take monkeypox seriously, and every american must do their part to help us combat monkeypox. On may 18, the first case of monkeypox was reported in the u. S. Today we have some in 8900 cases that have been reported. Within two days, we began to ship out vaccines to the states that were asking for help. Today we have made more than 1. 1 million Vaccine Doses Available throughout the country and we have delivered more than 620,000 of those doses. We have also deployed more than 15,000 courses and increased the countrys capacity to administer tests on a weekly basis. Last week i declared a Public Health emergency to address the monkeypox outbre