White House to protect gay event attendees from monkeypox

{O/C} And the White House has announced new actions to protect upcoming gay event attendees who are highly susceptible to monkeypox.

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XAVIER BECERRA, Secretary of Health and Human Services:

Today, I am happy to announce that we will be allocating an additional supply of the JYNNEOS vaccine vials to the Southern Decadence festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Black Pride festival in Atlanta, Georgia, which will allow up to 5,000 vaccinations at each event.

We'll also be allocating an additional supply of JYNNEOS vials to two festivals in Oakland, California: the Pride festival, which is also this weekend, and PrideFest on September 11th. This allocation will allow up to 2,400 additional vaccinations.

So far, we've made over one million vials of vaccine available to jurisdictions, which is nearly enough to reach the entire population that’s most at risk.