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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended a nationwide pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s one shot COVID-19 vaccine due to new evidence of some extremely rare but potentially dangerous side effects in a small number of the millions of U.S. residents who have gotten that particular vaccine. According to the FDA and CDC, out of the more than 6.8 million U.S. residents who have gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine so far, six of them subsequently came down with both an uncommon type of blood clot in the brain and low levels of blood platelets that can cause stroke-like incidents. All six of them are women between the ages of 18 and 48, and their symptoms showed up six to 13 days after getting their shot. One woman has died and another remains hospitalized and in critical condition.

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