Mexican president will livestream getting vaccinated to reassure the country of its safety
From CNN’s Karol Suarez
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives to give his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace in Mexico City on Tuesday, April 20. Fernando Llano/AP
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his morning news conference that he will get vaccinated at the end of the conference, and it will be streamed live for the country to watch, reassuring the public of the vaccine’s safety.
“At the end of the presser, once Q&A’s are done, I’ll get vaccinated, here in front of you, so all the country can watch. I’ll get vaccinated because I want to make a call to the elderly, those that aren’t getting the vaccine, for any reason they have. To tell you that we’re sure there’s no risk at all. No danger. No adverse reactions,” he said today.
Johnson & Johnson stands by “positive benefit/risk profile” of its Covid-19 vaccine
From CNN s Jacqueline Howard
A pharmacist volunteer prepares doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during a pop-up clinic in Detroit, Michigan, on April 12. Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images
Johnson & Johnson believes that the benefits of its coronavirus vaccine outweigh the risks, Dr. Paul Stoffels, the company s chief scientific officer, said during an earnings call on Tuesday morning.
Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration recommended pausing the use of the J&J Covid-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot” out of almost seven million doses administered.
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