This week, federal public health officials recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. This after reports of rare, but serious, blood clots. The FDA and Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to review this handful of serious reactions and decided it was
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For most of the pandemic, the view south was flattering.
No matter how bad things got, Canadians were always able to console themselves with how it could have been worse. Why, we could have been living in the United States. It took only a cursory glance at Donald Trump’s America to see what worse looked like. Canadians got to revel in that most Canadian of medical conditions: congenital smugness.
Georgia pauses Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines after blood-clot reports
Beau Evans
Georgia has paused distribution of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as part of a nationwide halt after reports of blood clots in six people in the U.S. who had received the shot.
The six cases of “a rare and severe type of blood clot” are among more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson-brand vaccine administered in the U.S. as of Monday, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“Right now, these adverse events appear to be extremely rare,” the FDA said in a statement Tuesday.
The Georgia Department of Health said it will follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s guidance of pausing usage of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
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