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The Readers Forum: Friday letters

Indispensable The entire world has been consumed by COVID-19 for over a year, and it is my understanding that many epidemiologists have compared the ravages of this pandemic to the 1918 influenza pandemic that also swept the entire world. To be sure, COVID has altered our lives and dictated changes in routine behaviors more than anything in my lifetime. The Winston-Salem Journal continues to be an indispensable source of information during this unsettling disruption of our lives. Our hometown paper has provided regular updates of the horrible statistics as well as the heroic acts of health providers. We readers became better acquainted with the experts such as Dr. Mandy Cohen of the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Christopher Ohl of Wake Forest School of Medicine and Joshua Swift, the Forsyth County Public Health Director. There have been executive orders from Gov. Roy Cooper and cameo appearances from Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Piedmont Triad: J&J pause prompts concerns about vaccine hesitancy

Just two days after the state hit the pause button on Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine, health leaders are now concerned that it could lead to potentially more vaccine hesitancy. Forsyth County Public Health Director Joshua Swift said the department started to see a slow down in vaccine appointments starting the week of Easter as numbers of COVID-19 cases are now starting to slowly tick up in the state. “So we are concerned that people that were already hesitant that have heard this news may become more hesitant,” Swift said. Forsyth County Public Health Director Joshua Swift is referring to a recent decision by the state to pause all Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines as federal officials investigate six cases of rare blood clots that were found in women after they had received the vaccine. So far nearly seven million doses have been administered in the U.S.“I would just encourage people to you know this is one person in a million who got these rare blood clots an

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