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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Vaccination site returns to Covington after three months From left, Georgia Piedmont Technical College President Tavarez Holston, Newton County Chairman Marcello Banes, Gwinnett-Newton-Rockdale Health Departments Director Dr. Audrey Arona and Irvin Clark, the college s vice president of economic development, discuss the impact of the new COVID-19 vaccination site. - photo by Tom Spigolon
COVINGTON, Ga. The county’s health director says it was just a matter of finding a large enough space for the hundreds of people expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before a vaccination site could return to Newton County.
By ANGELICA LAVITO AND FIONA RUTHERFORD | Bloomberg | Published: April 16, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Communities across the U.S. are suddenly revamping their vaccination campaigns to adjust to an indefinite halt in Johnson & Johnson s doses, which has required officials to reschedule tens of thousands of appointments as they seek to reassure people that covid-19 vaccines are safe. Health professionals are split on whether the delay should continue. On the one hand, the blood-clotting syndrome that led to the pause in J&J vaccinations is serious and can be deadly. Conversely, with J&J doses out of circulation, that means fewer people are getting immunized even as fast-spreading covid variants are tightening their grip, and concern about the J&J shots risks expanding vacci
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J&J’s Limbo Crimps U.S. Vaccine Drive at a Pivotal Moment
Bloomberg 3 hrs ago Angelica LaVito and Fiona Rutherford
(Bloomberg) Communities across the U.S. are suddenly revamping their vaccination campaigns to adjust to an indefinite halt in Johnson & Johnson’s doses, which has required officials to reschedule tens of thousands of appointments as they seek to reassure people that Covid-19 vaccines are safe.
Health professionals are split on whether the delay should continue. On the one hand, the blood-clotting syndrome that led to the pause in J&J vaccinations is serious and can be deadly. Conversely, with J&J doses out of circulation, that means fewer people are getting immunized even as fast-spreading Covid variants are tightening their grip, and concern about the J&J shots risks expanding vaccine hesitancy.