As the nation began shutting down distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday, so did Community Health of Northwest Florida, one of the Pensacola area's largest distributors of the one-shot vaccine.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended a pause in administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after a small number of people who received it experienced blood clots. So far, the federal agencies are reviewing six reported cases out of the almost 7 million vaccines administered in the United States.
All of those cases were women between the ages of 18 and 48. One woman died, and one was hospitalized in critical condition. The patients in those cases started experiencing symptoms between six and 13 days after receiving the vaccine.