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Vaccinations for adolescents ages 12-15 could begin as soon as Thursday, following FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for that age group.
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Sangamon County Department of Public Health are awaiting the final go-ahead from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices before opening up the vaccinations. ACIP will meet Wednesday to discuss recommendations for authorization.
Jeff Wilhite, spokesperson for SCDPH, said that if all goes well, the young teens will be eligible to sign up at scdph.org or walk into a vaccination clinic. They must be accompanied by a parent or guardian when receiving the vaccine.
Illinois on Tuesday temporarily halted shots of Johnson & Johnson s popular one-dose vaccine for COVID-19 on the advice of federal health authorities who plan to meet Wednesday and review six U.S. cases of a rare and severe-type blood clot among the 6.8 million J&J vaccine recipients.
A statement from the Illinois Department of Public Health said the department instructed all providers of COVID-19 vaccines in the state to immediately discontinue use of the J&J vaccine at this time out of an abundance of caution.
FDA,CDC recommend J&J pause: Rare but severe blood clots reported
State officials indicated that the temporary suspension of J&J vaccine wouldn t significantly hamper efforts to vaccinate the population in the short term as officials try to reach herd immunity by getting at least 70% to 80% of Illinoisans vaccinated.
The use of the popular, one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine for preventing COVID-19 was temporarily halted Tuesday by state health officials because of six U.S. cases of a “rare and severe-type blot clot” among recipients of that vaccine.
A statement from the Illinois Department of Public Health said the department instructed all providers of COVID-19 vaccines in the state to immediately discontinue use of the J&J vaccine at this time “out of an abundance of caution.”
The department said the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for COVID-19 make up the “vast majority of doses on hand” in Illinois. Those vaccines require two doses given several weeks apart to achieve full effectiveness.
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