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US calls for a pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccine April 13, 2021
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration are recommending that the United States pause the use of Johnson & Johnson s COVID-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot. Courtesy file photo
WASHINGTON The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration are recommending that the United States pause the use of Johnson & Johnson s COVID-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot.
White House is taking Johnson & Johnson vaccine news extremely seriously, Biden adviser says
From CNN s Betsy Klein
White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein offered some of the Biden administration’s first on-camera reaction to news that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would be paused following concerns regarding severe blood clot cases, saying the administration is taking it “extremely seriously” and largely declining to forecast what it means for reopening the economy.
“I’ve already heard that the White House medical team is poring over these data, looking into it, taking this extremely seriously. But it would be unwise for me to lean any further into that until we hear from them,” he said during an appearance on CNBC Tuesday morning.
For comparison, birth control has a 1 in 1,000 chance of blood clots.
By Chelsea SteinerApr 13th, 2021, 1:52 pm
America’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has hit a speedbump amid recommendations to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration made the recommendation after six reported US cases of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot. But before you start panicking, these are 6 cases among over 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered in the United States. That’s roughly a one in a million chance of severe blood clots from the vaccine.