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LANSING – COVID-19 vaccine providers are shifting Pfizer and Moderna doses to prevent canceling appointments caused by a pause on using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Greater Lansing COVID-19 vaccine providers will follow federal and state recommendations to pause the use of the J&J vaccine after concerns about adverse reactions to the shot. Health departments and Sparrow Health System will store any J&J vaccine until the pause is lifted.
“Safety is our highest priority. It is important that the CDC and the FDA take time to investigate these rare but serious adverse events,” Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail said in a statement. “The pause is a sign that our vaccine reporting and investigation systems are working to ensure safety.
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A new state report indicates that 246 people in Michigan have come down with COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, and three have died.
While alarming, that’s a tiny percentage of the number of people in the state who have been vaccinated.
Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail says there still is broad transmission and many people remain unvaccinated. Those factors increase the risk that a vaccinated person can contract COVID. “Once we have both a very high efficacy vaccine and herd immunity, she explains, we should see far less of that.”
Vail adds that several factors might be to blame, stating that some people perhaps got exposed days after their first dose, or in some cases basically may have been incubating and not tested positive, or not feeling symptoms yet before their first dose, or in-between doses.”
Ingham Health Officer Asking Schools to Pause In-Person Classes
According to the Lansing State Journal, The Ingham County Health Department is saying that schools should suspend in-person classes after spring break as a precaution to prevent the continued spread of COVID-19.
Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail issued a recommendation that schools move to remote learning for grades 6-12 for one week. (Lansing State Journal)
With all the numbers going up here in Michigan and so many families on spring break this week, there s no doubt that in-person classes should be put on hold for at least one if not two weeks.