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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – The Rhode Island COVID-19 Vaccine Subcommittee will meet Tuesday morning to discuss the future of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
This comes after the R.I. Department of Health announced the state will resume its use of the one-shot vaccine after a nationwide 10-day pause due to reports of rare blood clots.
The pause was lifted nationwide on Friday, but Rhode Island health officials decided to initially hold off on resuming its use for further research since the state wasn’t expecting a shipment of the J & J shot for two to three weeks.
Roughly 7-million doses of the Johnson & Johnson shot have been administered in the United States. More than 31,000 doses have been administered here in Rhode Island. Locally, there have been no reported cases of blood clots and officials say the state only gets a small allotment of the one-shot vaccine to begin with.
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Rhode Islanders are jockeying to get in line for COVID-19 vaccination, and state leaders disagree on whether teachers and elected officials should get shots before the general public.
Lt. Gov. Dan McKee, who is set to become governor when Gov. Gina Raimondo steps down to join President Joe Biden s Cabinet, says teachers, school support staff, members of the General Assembly and elected statewide officeholders should be moved up on the priority list.