welcome, everyone. a biden administration official says 9 million doses of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine are ready to go into patients arms after the u.s. lifted on friday a temporary suspension of the vaccine s use. now, that pause was put into place amid reports of a rare type of blood clot in more than a dozen people who received the shot. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explained the decision to resume use of the vaccine to cnn s anderson cooper. this is a rare, very rare but possible occurrence here, and it needs to be treated a certain way. anderson, i m going to put up this graphic here. just, you know, when you think about risk versus benefit, that s what really the emergency use authorization is all about. and that s what they really looked at here. if you look on the left, that s women between the ages of 18 and 49. for every 1 million doses given, we saw roughly 13 cases of this condition of clotting. but at the same time, prevented 12 deaths
approach over a dark part of history even if it hurts the relationship with a key ally. johnson & johnson s covid vaccine once again will be going into the arms of americans. on friday, the food and drug administration have lifted a temporary pause in the vaccine s use, saying its benefits far outweigh its risks. the suspension has been put into place in reports on a rare type of blood clot after more than a dozen patients have received the shot. a white house official says the u.s. has 9 million doses ready to go. cnn s alexander dra field has more from new york. motion to be voted as is on the johnson & johnson vaccine. reporter: a cdc review committee revising the vaccine of age 18 and up. so the vote is 10 in favor, 4 opposed, 1 abstention. the motion carries. reporter: the committee did not recommend new restrictions based on erring or gender. but the vaccine will be updated with a new label that women under the age of 50 should be aware of the risk of blood cl
for example, if you take the risk of a severe blood clot in a young woman, who is probably the highest risk, it s no greater than 1 in 80,000. so if you re at the university of michigan stadium and you re sitting there among 80,000 people and a helicopter drops out a ping-pong ball, what s your chance of being hit by the ping-pong ball. i think that helps understand relative risk. whereas the virus is common. evan mcmorris-santoro is in new york city. the cdc director says there s a need for extraordinary outreach to educate people with vaccines now that the j&j shots are back on the market. there s also apparently a need to incentivize people to get their vaccines, as you re seeing for yourself. reporter: that s right, boris. starting with the incentivizing, here in new york if you come and get vaccinated, you can walk into the natural history museum behind me. you get four free passes to come to the museum later on after you get your shot. on to the cdc stuff, what th
sheriff s county s office is tight lipped about the shooting of brown, and nor has the county released any body camera footage, and calls for the release of that footage is calling louder, and the governor is tweeting that he calls for the footage to be released as quickly as possible. and there is an emergency council meeting to have that released as quickly as possible, and the request will be formally filed monday. natasha chen was at that briefing involving the city mayor and manager, and natasha, the family of andrew brown is expected to hold a press conference, and what are you hearing from anyone? yes, fred that is going to happen right here where we are, the mount lebanon zion church, and we are expected to hear from some of the brown families and the attorney, and the head of the local naacp, and you know, there is a lot of understandable frustration, questions about why that body camera footage has not been released. we should mention in addition to the city counc
at least six people have been shot and killed by officers across the united states in just the last 24 hours after derek chauvin was convicted of murdering george floyd. optimism on capitol hill is growing after a compromise. congresswoman karen bass is to meet next week. congresswoman joyce beatty joined me in the last hour on the need for change. enough is enough. people are devastated. we have to have a better way of de-escalating. we need to take a longer look, a better look, at our system, training. how are we training police officers? i find it unacceptable that one way of training, one system, one size cannot fit all. new reaction after the senate paced the covid-19 hate crimes act which helped protect asian-americans amid rising discrimination. hirono gave her thoughts on republican senator josh hawley being the only senator to vote against it. there s not much that i can tell him to get a conscience. he obviously did this with total intention, and so the less w