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The nation�s top health officials believed they had finally hit
upon a solution to quell weeks of public criticism about the
straggling government response to the monkeypox outbreak
spreading across the country this summer.

They would stretch the nation�s limited supply of the only FDA-
approved vaccine for monkeypox by splitting doses to cover five
times as many people � an admission, after repeated reassurances
by top government officials, that the United States did not have
enough shots for every at-risk American, after all.

But after Health and Human Services officials announced their
proposal on Aug. 4, Paul Chaplin, chief executive of Bavarian
Nordic, the vaccine�s manufacturer, called a senior U.S. health
official and accused the Biden administration of breaching its
contracts with his company by planning to use the doses in an
unapproved manner. Even worse, said two people with knowledge of
the episode, Chaplin threatened to cancel all future vaccine
orders from the United States, throwing into doubt the
administration�s entire monkeypox strategy.

�People are begging for monkeypox vaccines, and we�ve just
pissed off the one manufacturer,� said one official who spoke on
the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
comment.

The behind-the-scenes clash with Bavarian Nordic, which has not
previously been reported, was just the latest episode in a
monkeypox response beset by turf wars, ongoing surprises and
muddled messaging, with key partners frequently finding
themselves out of sync as they race to catch up to a rapidly
unfolding crisis.

For two months, the Biden administration has been chased by
headlines about its failure to order enough vaccines, speed
treatments and make tests available to head off an outbreak that
has grown from one case in Massachusetts on May 17 to more than
13,500 this week, overwhelmingly among gay and bisexual men. And
100 days after the outbreak was first detected in Europe, no
country has more cases than the United States � with public
health experts warning the virus is on the verge of becoming
permanently entrenched here.

�I think there�s a potential to get this back in the box, but
it�s going to be very difficult at this point,� Scott Gottlieb,
who led the Food and Drug Administration under President Donald
Trump and has advised the Biden administration on its response
to public health outbreaks, said on CBS�s �Face the Nation� last
week.

Interviews with more than 40 officials working on the monkeypox
response, outside advisers, public health experts and patients
show that despite efforts to learn from the nation�s coronavirus
failures, officials struggled to meet growing demand for
testing, vaccines and treatments. Early mistakes, including the
failure to recognize the virus was spreading differently and far
more aggressively than it had previously, and a plodding
bureaucracy left hundreds of thousands of gay men facing the
threat of an agonizing illness that has not led to U.S.
fatalities but can cause painful lesions some have likened to
being pierced by shards of glass while going to the bathroom.
And experts fear broader circulation of a virus that can infect
anyone by close contact.

Biden officials insist the nation�s response is at a turning
point, touting a White House monkeypox team set up this month to
lead the effort, the recent decision to declare monkeypox a
public health emergency and the new vaccine plan to address
growing demands for shots.

�The president asked me to come here and do this,� said Bob
Fenton, the freshly installed national monkeypox coordinator,
adding that his goal is to �control, contain, eliminate
monkeypox here in the United States and to do that in
accelerated fashion.�

The coming weeks will reveal whether the administration has
overcome its early struggles � or whether too much time was lost
as the virus took hold in the United States under a president
who had vowed to prevent pandemics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/17/monkeypox-biden-
vaccine-testing-mistakes/