Getting the call
While those around her began to get their first and second shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, 84-year-old Nancy Heber could only wait. And worry.
Her age qualified her for the vaccine, and her health issues left her fearing that catching the virus could be a death sentence. But she was heartbroken to discover she was allergic to an ingredient in the available Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
So she did the only thing she could do she continued to hunker down in her Upper Arlington, Ohio, home and hope for some relief.
It came Tuesday, in a phone call from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Some Roman Catholic leaders in U.S. call Johnson & Johnson vaccine morally compromised
March 4, 2021 / 2:07 PM / CBS/AP Ohio rolls out Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses
Roman Catholic leaders in St. Louis and New Orleans are advising Catholics that the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, newly approved for use in the U.S., is morally compromised because it is produced using a cell line derived from an aborted fetus. The New Orleans Archdiocese says the decision to receive a vaccine is one of individual conscience.
In its statement late last week, it stopped short of advising Catholics not to take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but adds that Catholics should choose coronavirus vaccines made by Moderna or Pfizer if they are available.