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Vaccine supplies not yet at targets; J&J pulled (4/14/2021)   Local COVID vaccination efforts are still making progress, but they suffered some setbacks this week. Federal allocations to Minnesota are still below the level state leaders said would soon be coming, and health officials paused administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while regulators investigate the six incidents of vaccine recipients developing rare blood clots out of 6.8 million doses administered nationwide. As part of their ongoing effort to carefully monitor the safety of COVID vaccines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spotted six cases of a rare blood clot in the brain among women ages 18-48 occurring 6-13 days after vaccination. Experts for both agencies will investigate, and officials wrote, “Until that process is complete, we are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution.”

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