For comparison, birth control has a 1 in 1,000 chance of blood clots.
By Chelsea SteinerApr 13th, 2021, 1:52 pm
America’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has hit a speedbump amid recommendations to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration made the recommendation after six reported US cases of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot. But before you start panicking, these are 6 cases among over 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered in the United States. That’s roughly a one in a million chance of severe blood clots from the vaccine.