The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Becerra confirmed today a Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act declaration had been filed with the Federal Registry that immediately grants pharmacists the authority to administer monkeypox vaccines. 
Additionally, this HHS declaration empowers pharmacy interns and pharmacy technicians supervised by a pharmacist to prescribe, dispense, or administer smallpox (variola virus), monkeypox virus, or other orthopoxvirus vaccines or therapeutics.
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