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Following a call by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday morning, Harris County announced it will pause administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at county distribution sites.
According to a tweet from the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, residents who were scheduled to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine today at NRG Park will be offered the Pfizer vaccine instead.
The pause will not affect residents scheduled to receive their vaccine at mobile sites, which are administering the Moderna vaccine.
In rare cases, the vaccine has caused dangerous blood clots.Â
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Catherine Wendlandt
4/13/2021 at 11:09am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have called on health care providers to pause administering the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine after reports of a rare blood clot developing in some patients.Â
There have been six cases of a rare type of blood clot, called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). What makes this clot so dangerous is that it blocks the brainâs venous sinuses, according to Johns Hopkins, which prevents blood from draining out of the brain and could cause a hemorrhage. Worse, the typical drug used to treat blood clots, heparin, is too dangerous to use in these cases.Â
One of Texas’ most dangerous freeways, Interstate 45, is facing a massive $7 billion rebuild. As Houston’s largest and most expensive project, plans of rebuilding I-45 have been in the making for more than fifteen years by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Houston Area Fared Worse Than The Rest Of Texas During The Winter Storm, Report Says
Sixty-six people also died in Harris County alone, accounting for nearly one-third of the almost 200 deaths attributed to the storm, according to the report.
April 8, 2021, 5:19 PM
Lia Ubidia, left, and her son, Andrew Velarde, carry groceries as they walk home through the snow Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston. A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to more than 2 million people and shut down grocery stores and dangerously snowy roads.
Harris County residents lost power and running water at a rate much higher than the rest of Texas during February’s winter storm, according to a new survey from the University of Houston s Hobby School of Public Affairs.