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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met Tuesday to discuss the halt of the vaccine.  According to the CDC, the halt of the J&J vaccine is a precaution as they investigate six cases of rare blood clots.  "While these events are rare were recommending a pause of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine in order to prepare the healthcare system to recognize and treat patients appropriately and to report severe events they may be seeing," Anne Schuchat M.D., Principal Deputy Director at the CDC, said on ...

Kansas will follow a federal recommendation to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six individuals developed blood clots as a possible side effect.  State health officials note none of those cases occurred in Kansas, but Health Secretary Lee Norman said Tuesday morning that it was better to heed the federal guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration just hours earlier. "It is a small number, but you can’t turn a b...

Isabella Luu did not know when she would be able to receive her COVID-19 vaccine in Athens. Because of this, Luu and many other students made hour-long treks outside of Athens to get vaccinated. “I’m out of state from a small town. I wasnt sure if Id be able to get the vaccines very soon in Iowa, so I figured that if an opportunity came up for me here that I would grab it,” said Luu, a sophomore journalism and anthropology major at the University of Georgia. People have scr...

How should North Dakota dole out the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Ethics group weighs the question The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which received federal regulatory clearance over the weekend, begins shipments to states immediately, and is expected to compliment the inoculation process already underway with Pfizer and Modernas vaccines.  Written By: Adam Willis | × Dado Ruvic / REUTERS BISMARCK — With a single-dose vaccine newly authorized for use around the cou...

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"Today marks an encouraging step toward an end to the #COVID19 pandemic," Walensky wrote on Twitter. "I have now signed CDCs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that endorsed the safety and effectiveness of Janssens COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 & up." The federal government can now begin shipping doses out to sites across the country. The advisory committee met in an emergency session to review data on the vaccine, which on Saturday became the third shot to rece...

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on the emergency use of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine for adults. The federal government is preparing to distribute millions of doses, which could start reaching vaccine sites as soon as Tuesday. Walensky's decision came after an advisory panel unanimously recommended use of the shots. "Today marks an encouraging step toward an end to the...

Adobe Stock The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the green light for Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine for adults as the federal government prepares to ship out millions of doses this week, according to CNBC. Dr. Rochelle Walensky’s decision came after an advisory panel to the CDC voted unanimously to recommend the vaccine. The J&J shot was the third vaccine to receive emergency-use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration w...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the nation’s third COVID vaccine for people 18 and older, giving the world a new weapon in fighting the pandemic.

1. Former President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was considering running for president again in 2024, but would not form a third party. Trump said instead he would stick with the Republican Party and work to support its efforts in the 2022 midterms and beyond, essentially declaring that he planned to remain a dominating force in the GOP. "We began it together four years ago and it is...