HELENA, Mont. â Montana is putting a pause on the use of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine after the CDC and FDA say there are reports of it causing a rare but severe type of blood clot. While all federal health channels have stopped using the vaccine immediately, it is up to individual states to make their own call.
The stateâs Department of Health and Human Services says just under 20,000 doses of the vaccine have been administered in Montana, and there are no known reports of blood clots in the state at this time. Still, DPHHS has asked all counties to stop using the vaccine until there is more information.
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On a Saturday morning, it s all hands on deck at Gallup Indian Medical Center. Custodians are directing traffic. Dental and medical assistants are checking in patients. Inside a gymnasium, nurses, pharmacists and physical therapists are administering coronavirus vaccine doses to hundreds of eager patients. Some of these people have been waiting in line for hours. I think the record today was 4 a.m., says Dr. Jonathan Iralu, a top infectious disease specialist for the federal Indian Health Service and the incident commander for this event in Gallup, New Mexico.
Unlike other segments of the U.S. healthcare system, Iralu says the IHS is very centralized. During the pandemic, that s been the agency s superpower.