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WORCESTER - Residents who expected to get the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at a city-sponsored clinic may be getting a dose of Pfizer instead, but city health officials still consider the Johnson & Johnson vaccine a good shot.
Out of an abundance of caution, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a federal recommendation that Johnson & Johnson shots not be given while they review six confirmed cases of a rare and severe blood clot reported in women who had received the vaccine.
In response to the recommendation from the CDC and FDA, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Tuesday directed all providers to pause administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Mobile COVID-19 vaccine equity clinic held in Worcester wcvb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wcvb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WORCESTER - Douglas Taylor drives a truck for the U.S. Postal Service in Shrewsbury.
He heard about a walk-in equity COVID-19 vaccine clinic this weekend at work and made sure - really made sure - not to miss it.
He set up a chair at 3 a.m. outside the YMCA on Main Street, but he wasn t alone. Someone had been there since 2:30, and others continued to line up around the parking lot before the sun came up on a beautiful spring day. I wanted to get my shot, Taylor said while holding up his freshly stamped vaccination card. I wanted to get relief.
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