Kansas will follow a federal recommendation to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six individuals developed blood clots as a possible side effect.
State health officials note none of those cases occurred in Kansas, but Health Secretary Lee Norman said Tuesday morning that it was better to heed the federal guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration just hours earlier.
"It is a small number, but you can’t turn a blind eye to something as significant as that," Norman said on a media briefing hosted by the University of Kansas Health System. "We, therefore, are falling in line with (the federal guidelines)."