Getting appointments for 16- and 17- year-olds
When 16- and 17-year-olds are registered for a vaccine, a provider will let them schedule if the Pfizer vaccine is available there. Providers will see the age on the registration and know if they can be scheduled.
Health departments are working with providers to store and distribute the Pfizer vaccine to locations that might not have that brand.
The Barry-Eaton District Health Department is holding a Pfizer clinic on Monday, April 19 at the Lansing Mall. People can schedule an appointment online or call 517-541-2605 if they need special assistance or do not have internet access.
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Last Friday, MSU began inoculating students with the J&J coronavirus vaccine. Almost 600 students got the J&J vaccine last Friday.
On Tuesday, the FDA and CDC released a recommendation to pause the use of the J&J vaccine over a possible link to a rare blood clot. MSU got replacement Pfizer doses from the Ingham County Health Department before the first appointment this week.
By design, there were no appointments on Monday, but there were 3,000 appointments booked for the rest of this week. University spokesman Dan Olsen says there are 4,000 more Pfizer doses expected next week. “We’ll spread that out through the entire week, Olsen explains, so we’ll be looking at about 800 appointments each day Monday through Friday.”
Michigan to pause use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine per FDA recommendation We will follow the FDA’s guidance to temporarily pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine out of an abundance of caution. Author: Associated Press, 13 ON YOUR SIDE Staff Published: 9:37 AM EDT April 13, 2021 Updated: 9:11 PM EDT April 13, 2021
LANSING, Mich Michigan is putting a pause on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in line with guidance from the federal government out of an abundance of caution.
In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were recommending a pause in the use of the vaccine as they investigate blood clots in six women that occurred six to 13 days after vaccination.
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine paused, MSU students to receive different shot The Breslin Center on July 17, 2020. Photo by Annie Barker | The State News
The Food and Drug Administration issued a statement early Tuesday morning recommending to pause all Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines due to a rare blood clot, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, that could form in women who get the vaccine.
So far, six women between the ages of 18 and 48 have developed cases of CVST out of the 6.8 million people who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to the statement.
The Ingham County Health Department announced in a press release that they will be pausing the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
University of Michigan, Michigan State University switching to Pfizer vaccine for students
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Visitors enter from the Jack Roth Stadium Club entrance as Michigan Medicine healthcare workers administer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI – The University of Michigan and Michigan State University are switching to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for students after the federal government recommended pausing use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to severe reactions.
Both UM and MSU had set up student vaccination clinics to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which only requires one shot. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a statement recommending a pause in use of that vaccine after six reported U.S. cases of a rare and severe type of