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Officials predict minor local impacts from vaccine pause


Officials predict minor local impacts from vaccine pause
April 22nd 4:44 pm |
Maggie Nelson, KUCB News
 
State health officials have asked Alaska vaccine providers to follow federal recommendations to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson
COVID-19 vaccines due to a clotting risk. More than 7 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine have been administered across the U.S., but a handful of women have gotten a blood clot afterward, prompting the pause. In Unalaska, however, that halt is not expected to have much of an effect on the city s vaccination effort, according to local health officials.
I think in the grand scheme of vaccination, it s not going to change things much, said Megan Sarnecki, medical director and family medicine physician for the Iliuliuk Family and Health Services clinic. [The pause] came on relatively late. We didn t have very many [Johnson & Johnson] doses. And luckily, we ve already given out a lot of vaccin ....

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Health Officials Predict Minor Local Impacts From Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Pause


Credit Maggie Nelson/KUCB
State health officials have asked Alaska vaccine providers to follow federal recommendations to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines due to a clotting risk. More than 7 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have been administered across the U.S., but a handful of women have gotten a blood clot afterward, prompting the pause. In Unalaska, however, that halt is not expected to have much of an effect on the city s vaccination effort, according to local health officials.
I think in the grand scheme of vaccination, it s not going to change things much, said Megan Sarnecki medical director and family medicine physician for the Iliuliuk Family and Health Services clinic. [The pause] came on relatively late. We didn t have very many [Johnson & Johnson] doses. And luckily, we ve already given out a lot of vaccinations [in general].   ....

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