The move follows a recommendation Friday from the federal expert panel on immunization.
Ontario will be administering second doses of the monkeypox vaccine to those at highest risk of contracting the disease, in the wake of new recommendations from a federal expert panel.
While the national supply remains limited, NACI is also recommending that those second doses can be administered in such a way that only one-fifth of the vial is used per person.Ontario’s Ministry of Health “is reviewing the NACI guidance and will work with local public health units on administering second doses,” the ministry told the Star.
The NACI guidance document says its recommendations are based on factors including the epidemiology of the ongoing Canadian and international outbreaks, the growing evidence of the level of protection provided by the vaccine, and the current and projected supply.Anecdotally, there have been a few mild “breakthrough” cases of monkeypox in individuals who received one dose of the vaccine, said Toronto infectious diseases physician Dr. Isaac Bogoch.
“I think we have to be aware that we may see imported cases from other parts of the world where monkeypox was previously not found, but in terms of new cases in Canada, we’re in a much better place now than where we were, for example, in July.”
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