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U.S. health advisers on Friday urged resuming covid-19 vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot, saying its benefits outweigh a rare risk of blood clots in line with Europe’s rollout.
Federal health officials uncovered 15 vaccine recipients who developed a highly unusual kind of blood clot, out of nearly 8 million people given the J&J shot. All were women, most under age 50. Three died, and seven remain hospitalized.
“I think it’s important to note that all three vaccines are safe and effective,” said Dr. Graham Snyder, UPMC’s medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology. “What they’ve identified is 15 cases of clots associated with the vaccine. Given the number of doses already administered, that still makes this a very rare occurrence.”
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2020 was a bad year for homicides in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. After a steady decline in homicides since 2016, the county’s homicide rate jumped 16% from 2019’s numbers, to 109 slain neighbors.
The population predominantly impacted by these numbers are adult African-American males (69%). Also, it is African American neighborhoods both inside Pittsburgh (such as Homewood) and outside Pittsburgh (such as Wilkinsburg, McKeesport) that bare the brunt of the violence and its aftermath.
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