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Will the US CDC recommend use of a smallpox/monkeypox vaccine for at least 10% of the US population, before 2023?

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Opened:

May 19, 2022

Closes:

Dec 31, 2022

Resolved:

Jan 20, 2023

Spot Scoring Time:

May 20, 2022

Mpox (Monkeypox)

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