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March 1, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control approved the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the weekend and already doses are on their way across the country for administration.
This now gives Americans three options for a vaccine, joining Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that have been in use for months.
“Johnson & Johnson seems to have less significant side effects,” says Dr. Jennifer Morse, health director for the District Health Department #10, Central Michigan District Health Department and the Mid-Michigan District Health Department.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has some major advantages to its predecessors including being just one dose, compared to two, and being able to be stored at standard refrigerator temperatures.
Credit Elaine Cromie / Bridge Michigan
For much of last year, Michigan’s nurses and other frontline workers were sometimes called names, cursed at, or lied to.
They scrambled to fill staff shortages, track down masks or other supplies, and, in some cases, as the virus tore through their communities, found there was precious little they could do for thousands of the sick and dying.
Then, finally, vaccines arrived.
And nearly one year after the virus was first confirmed in Michigan, these same health workers are finding their days filled with an entirely different emotion:
Joy.
It arrives in less than a milliliter, appointment after appointment, syringe after syringe.