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In this photo illustration Food and Drug Administration and Johnson & Johnson logos are seen in front of a medical syringe and vials. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire/TNS)
US urges pause of Johnson & Johnson vaccine over ‘extremely rare’ blood clotting
WASHINGTON Local and state officials nationwide scrambled Tuesday to keep their Covid-19 vaccination campaigns on track after federal health agencies recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson shots while they studied reports of very rare but dangerous blood clots.
The White House said Pfizer and Moderna were producing enough of their own vaccines to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of having enough doses for every American adult by the end of May. But the announcement was still a blow to the U.S. inoculation effort, which relies on public faith in the rapidly developed vaccines to persuade enough people to get shots to prevent another wave of infections and end the pandemic.
Dr. Anike Baptiste receives a dose of J&J from nurse Mokgadi Malebye at a Pretoria hospital last February. South Africa is one of the countries that announced a pause on the J&J vaccine while more research is done into potential blood clots that occurred in younger women after getting the vaccine.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause in the U.S. – because of reports of rare cases of potentially fatal blood clots in a small number of vaccinated women – could have global ramifications.
Even though the J&J vaccine so far has had very limited distribution outside of the United States, it s slated to provide more than a billion doses to the global fight against COVID.
Dr. Anike Baptiste receives a dose of J&J from nurse Mokgadi Malebye at a Pretoria hospital last February. South Africa is one of the countries that announced a pause on the J&J vaccine while more research is done into potential blood clots that occurred in younger women after getting the vaccine. Image: Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause in the U.S. – because of reports of rare cases of potentially fatal blood clots in a small number of vaccinated women – could have global ramifications.
Even though the J&J vaccine so far has had very limited distribution outside of the United States, it s slated to provide more than a billion doses to the global fight against COVID.
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