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UPMC, AHN To Follow FDA, CDC Recommendation To Pause Johnson And Johnson Vaccine
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) After the FDA and CDC’s recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the Pittsburgh area is already seeing the impact.
UPMC says it is pausing the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine right now, including use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the clinic at Pittsburgh Mills Mall. The clinic is still set to take place and UPMC says they are looking into alternative vaccines for distribution .
Allegheny Health Network also says it will pause the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but will continue to administer both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
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FILE In this March 31, 2021, file photo, a nurse fills a syringe with Johnson & Johnson s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine at the Vaxmobile, at the Uniondale Hempstead Senior Center, in Uniondale, N.Y. U.S. health regulators on Tuesday, April 13, is recommending a “pause” in using the vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Medical providers in western Pennsylvania are adjusting plans after the federal government’s recommendation to pause the administration of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
On Tuesday morning the Food and Drug Administration cited concerns about the possibility of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, a rare type of blood clotting, as the reason for the pause. Six women between the ages of 18-48 developed these clots less than two weeks after receiving the vaccine. One of the women died.
UPMC, AHN Pausing Distribution of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
The health care providers are following recommendations from the CDC and FDA after a potential link between the vaccine and blood clots.
April 13, 2021
PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK
On the same day that Pennsylvania opened eligibility for anyone 16 and older to get a COVID-19 vaccination, one of the three vaccines approved for use is temporarily not an option. Allegheny Health Network and UPMC, the region’s largest health care providers, announced Tuesday they would pause the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The decision came hours after the Centers for Disease Control recommended the J&J vaccine not be given until it could investigate further the cases of six women in the U.S., aged between 18 and 48, who experienced a rare blood clotting disorder six to 13 days after receiving the J&J shot.
UPMC
UPMC and the Pittsburgh Penguins hosted a drive-through covid-19 vaccine clinic in March at the Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry.
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Hospital systems in Western Pennsylvania are pausing distribution of the Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine, following recommendations from federal regulators.
Both UPMC and Allegheny Health Network last week announced plans for mass vaccine clinics to administer a combined 25,000 shots. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended a pause in Johnson & Johnson use, following a small cluster of reported cases of blood clots that occurred among six women in the days following their vaccination.