Members of the panel didn t recommend U.S. regulators restrict the use of the vaccine based on age or gender, but they did propose that the FDA consider adding a warning label for women under age 50.
The recommendation, which was adopted 10-4 with one abstention, by the CDC s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, will pave the way for U.S. regulators to lift their recommended pause on using the J&J shot as early as this weekend.
The single shot is a critical tool in getting lifesaving vaccines to hard-to-reach places that may not have reliable refrigeration, such as tribal lands, poorer neighborhoods and rural communities, as well as to people who may not be able to come back for a second dose, U.S. health officials say.
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Johnson & Johnson s COVID vaccine will be made available to the public again, ending an 11-day pause initiated after a rare blood clotting disorder was associated with the shot.
Fifteen people have developed the condition out of nearly 8 million who received J&J s vaccine, and three died. But that is not enough to justify taking a highly effective vaccine off the market, according to the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The two agencies held a joint news conference Friday evening to announce their decision to allow distribution of the J&J vaccine to resume.
Earlier in the day, a CDC advisory committee had voted to resume distribution of the vaccine.