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CONNORVILLE The mobile mass vaccination clinic scheduled from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. today at Buckeye Local High School will go on – but not as planned.
Those who had an appointment to receive the one-shot Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will now instead be receiving the first dose of the Moderna vaccine, according to Jefferson County Health Commissioner Andrew Henry.
“We have seen quite a few people cancel, obviously because they would have wanted the J and J originally,” Henry said. “That is to be expected. We are still going to be there at the same time.”
The change came from guidance from the Ohio Department of Health, who paused use of the vaccine across the state due to the breaking news Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended pausing administering of the Johnson and Johnson shot due to six women who took the vaccine developing a blood-clotting condition within two weeks of its admi
Staff with TourHealth, a COVID-19 vaccine administrator under contract to the state, sign in one of 194 area residents who registered for the vaccination clinic