Doctors group says physicians be key provider of J&J vaccine
Robert McCoppin Chicago Tribune (TNS)
April 23, 2021
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Medical assistant Mary Gomez gives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Tyler Bolte at Central Primary Care Physicians, a small community clinic in the Portage Park neighborhood, on April 23, 2021. The Chicago Medical Society wants to expand the role of physicians in giving the shots.(TNS)
A doctors group in Chicago says physicians should become key providers of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, because they are best suited to overcome patients’ skepticism.
The request came as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration on Friday said use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could resume after a pause due to a rare clotting disorder that was reported in roughly two of every 2 million doses. Advisers to the CDC said the vaccine’s benefits outweigh the risk against a virus that’s still killing about 1,000 A