Immunogenicity Data Drove Monkeypox Dose-Sparring Decision…It Also Drove Initial Approval
Executive Summary
Comfort with the initial approval based on inferred effectiveness may have made the current EUA process more palatable to US FDA officials but means there is a bigger gap in what’s known about the vaccine’s effectiveness overall.
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