These people are at 14 times more risk of monkeypox! CDC told because vaccination is necessary

 These people are at 14 times more risk of monkeypox! CDC told because vaccination is necessary

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a data, in which it has been found that compared to vaccinated people, people who have not been vaccinated are 14 times more at risk of getting infected with monkeypox. These data have been obtained from people eligible for monkeypox vaccine in some states, most commonly men who have sex with men or have sex with more than one person. The data derived from the data provide a first-hand view of the actual effect on the JYNNEOS vaccine.

The JYNNEOS vaccine is the main vaccine given against monkeypox.

Data offers new hope

CDC director Richelle Valensky said at a house briefing on monkeypox that the new data offers a ray of hope that the vaccine is working as expected. Monkeypox Deputy Response Coordinator Dr. Dimitri Daskalskis of the White House has urged people to share the good news.

He said that this knowledge is the power and it helps people to take more decisions regarding their health and it instills confidence in how important both doses of the vaccine are.

Vaccine very limited

The data on the vaccine revealed that the vaccine was initially designed to fight smallpox, which at this time has very limited use.

The Food and Drug Administration, CDC and the National Institutes of Health have launched several studies on the vaccine's safety and effectiveness after the outbreak in May. Describing the new data as optimistic, Valensky stressed that it is only the beginning. However, the full guarantee of safety from the vaccine is still in question.

Full data not yet released

For example, the new vaccine efficacy rate is based on data collected two weeks after the first vaccine. In this data, the data after 28 days of the second dose i.e. after full protection has not been added. However, CDC is yet to release data on efficacy after full vaccination.

Protection is available for two weeks

Valensky says these are preliminary findings and is based on findings from studies by other countries. It has been reported in the study that a single dose of monkey pox vaccine can provide at least some protection against infection. He said that we came to know from the lab study that there is immune protection for two weeks after the second dose of vaccine.