Island Ad-Vantages, April 29, 2021
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The Weekly Packet, April 29, 2021
J&J ‘pause’ dampens local demand for vaccine
More shots available than people who want them?
by
Leslie Landrigan
On April 13, 143 people had signed up for 100 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine available the next day at the town’s pop-up clinic. One hundred people got on the schedule, 43 on the waiting list.
Two weeks later, only a third of that number had signed up for Stonington’s next clinic on April 29.
The town had canceled the April 14 clinic because the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a temporary halt to the Johnson & Johnson shot. Six people who’d taken it developed a rare kind of blood clot. Ten days later, the CDC said the Johnson & Johnson shot was OK.