Don t panic over Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause, experts say. Chances of blood clot is less than 1 in a million. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY
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Health officials are urging Americans not to panic over news the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a recommendation Tuesday for states to pause vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clots.
The agencies said they’re reviewing six reported cases out of nearly 7 million vaccines administered in the U.S., which makes these blood clots an “extremely rare” occurrence.
“This is a really rare event … It’s six out of the 6.85 million doses, which is less than one in a million,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said during a White House briefing Tuesday.
Trump officials bragged about pressuring CDC to alter Covid reports, emails reveal
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Congressional investigators have released emails and documents that show Department of Health and Human Services appointees under former President Donald Trump regularly bragged about their efforts to influence researchers reports on the coronavirus.
Trump appointees succeeded on several occasions in changing language and influencing the tone of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, which offer weekly public updates on scientists findings.
In one example, Trump officials successfully pressured the CDC to change the opening line to a report and called it a small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki conducts her first news conference of the Biden administration in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Psaki previously worked in the Obama administration as White House Communications Director and spokesperson for the State Department. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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