March 06 2021
Kate Brown said she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to quell rumors and misinformation about the drug.
Gov. Kate Brown got her COVID-19 vaccination Saturday, March 6, at the Oregon Health and Science University Primary Care Clinic in Scappoose.
Dr. Joe Skariah gave Brown the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was recently cleared for emergency use by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration medical panel. Oregon expects to get dozes of that vaccine along with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
Brown said the state had vaccinated more than 1 million people and 20,000 doses each day.
In a statement released by Brown s office, the governor said she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to quell rumors and misinformation about the drug. It was important to me to demonstrate today that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is safe and effective, Brown said. Every week my office hears the question: If these vaccines are so safe, then why hasn t Kate Brown gotten one?