New York State Team After painstakingly convincing an immigrant enclave in New York that Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective, advocates last week helped vaccinate 500 people in a small but important step towards ending the pandemic. But within hours, the advocacy group, Neighbors Link, was scrambling to regain its hard-earned trust among the mid-Hudson Valley immigrant community, as health officials suddenly paused Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine due to it potentially causing rare but dangerous blood clots. “We’ll have to really do some more community education to get people comfortable enough again to get the shot,” Neighbors Link Executive Director Carola Bracco said Monday.