Little concern about J&J vaccine nationwide newsindiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsindiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
. INDIANAPOLIS A blue card sat on the windshield of Josh Woolvin s black Hyundai Tucson on Tuesday, a spot of color in the sunshine at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It signaled to nurses at this drive-by immunization clinic that Woolvin and his mother, Debbie Shipp, wanted Johnson & Johnson s single-dose coronavirus vaccine, not their other choice, Pfizer-BioNTech s two-shot regimen. Both selected Johnson & Johnson for its one-and-done convenience, a preference that outweighed their concerns about the extremely rare blood clots that prompted a 10-day pause in use of the vaccine. I d rather deal with the side effects than die of COVID-19, Woolvin said. There is no government data yet on whether health authorities ten-day halt in administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine soured people on the product, and the company declined to discuss the matter. But in spot checks across the country, people seeking vaccines and officials dispensing them appear eager to resume using
CDC to Issue Guidelines As Long-Haul COVID Numbers Rise
April 28, 2021 The CDC is finalizing new guidelines for doctors on long-haul COVID-19.
In a daylong congressional hearing Thursday, John Brooks, MD, a medical epidemiologist in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, testified that the guidelines were going through the clearance process at the agency.
“They should be coming out very shortly,” Brooks said.
The guidelines, which were developed in collaboration with newly established long-haul COVID-19 clinics and with patient advocacy groups, will “illustrate how to diagnose and begin to pull together what we know about management,” of the complex condition, Brooks said.
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