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New Covid vaccines are hitting pharmacy shelves. What happens to the original shots? Tens of millions of original Covid-19 vaccines are in the U.S. stockpile. What happens to them as new boosters hit pharmacies this week? Sarah Owermohle STAT

WASHINGTON — Senior Biden officials are in discussions about what to do with millions of original Covid-19 vaccines after the FDA’s authorization of new, updated shots this week bumped them to the sidelines.

Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort Troubled by the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients showing up at his hospital, the French doctor logged on to Facebook and uploaded a video urging people to get vaccinated. AP NEWS

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He was soon swarmed by dozens, then hundreds, then more than 1,000 hateful messages from an anti-vaccine extremist group known as V_V. The group, active in France and Italy, has harassed doctors and public health officials, vandalized government offices and tried to disrupt vaccine clinics. ...

Opinion | Monkeypox: Another Lesson in Global Health Neglect We ignore the health of poorer nations at our peril Zain Rizvi, JD, and Aly Bancroft, MPH medpagetoday

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One region has not had access to any Jynneos vaccine: Africa, where monkeypox has long been prevalent. No country within Africa has yet to procure a single dose. "Let us get vaccines onto the continent," the acting head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently...

The 'traumatic experience' of US monkeypox patients "If you haven't lived through it, you have no idea the kind of pain this is," one man tells the BBC. BBC News

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