WORCESTER - Residents who expected to get the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at a city-sponsored clinic may be getting a dose of Pfizer instead, but city health officials still consider the Johnson & Johnson vaccine a good shot.
Out of an abundance of caution, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a federal recommendation that Johnson & Johnson shots not be given while they review six confirmed cases of a rare and severe blood clot reported in women who had received the vaccine.
In response to the recommendation from the CDC and FDA, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Tuesday directed all providers to pause administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
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Apr 13, 2021
BOSTON (State House News Service) The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Tuesday directed all providers to pause administration of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, responding to a federal recommendation that those particular shots not be given while the Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control review six cases of a rare and severe blood clot reported in women who had received the vaccine.
With more than 6.8 million J&J doses administered in the U.S. as of Monday, the CDC and FDA said they were making the move out of an abundance of caution. State data show that 181,034 people in Massachusetts had received the J&J vaccine as of Monday.