Should the U.S. give out more monkeypox vax for party season?

The swift request of tens of thousands of vaccine doses comes as the number of known domestic cases reached 31 on Monday, according to the CDC, part of a pair of outbreaks that have seen more than a thousand cases across nearly three dozen countries. The request, as well as the swift creation of guidelines for who will receive doses of the vaccines, public health experts said, showcases that some of the lessons learned from early missteps in the COVID-19 pandemic response have been put into practice.

But with several superspreader events related to LGBT venues and events in Europe, some public health experts are hoping for a more aggressive posture on who will be able to receive a vaccine—even though no public health experts are calling for a COVID-esque mass vaccination strategy.

“I applaud the Biden administration in securing additional doses of the vaccine, but it needs a more coherent strategy for identification of cases and close contacts, and for determining which individuals or populations should be offered the vaccine,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law Center. “I worry greatly that we will see an escalation of cases, especially in high risk groups such as men who have sex with men. I also worry that we are repeating the errors of the AIDS epidemic by stigmatizing these communities and driving them underground.”