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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met Tuesday to discuss the halt of the vaccine.  According to the CDC, the halt of the J&J vaccine is a precaution as they investigate six cases of rare blood clots.  "While these events are rare we're recommending a pause of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine in order to prepare the healthcare system to recognize and treat patients appropriately and to report severe events they may be seeing," Anne Schuchat M.D., Principal Deputy Director at the CDC, said on a press conference via Zoom.  The six cases of the blood clots were reported out of more than 6.8 ...

Kansas will follow a federal recommendation to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six individuals developed blood clots as a possible side effect.  State health officials note none of those cases occurred in Kansas, but Health Secretary Lee Norman said Tuesday morning that it was better to heed the federal guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration just hours earlier. "It is a small number, but you can’t turn a blind eye to something as significant as that," Norman said on a media briefing hosted by the Univers...

Isabella Luu did not know when she would be able to receive her COVID-19 vaccine in Athens. Because of this, Luu and many other students made hour-long treks outside of Athens to get vaccinated. “I’m out of state from a small town. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get the vaccines very soon in Iowa, so I figured that if an opportunity came up for me here that I would grab it,” said Luu, a sophomore journalism and anthropology major at the University of Georgia. People have scrambled to receive COVID-19 vaccines since rollout began, yet many had to wait for eligibility to o...

How should North Dakota dole out the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Ethics group weighs the question The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which received federal regulatory clearance over the weekend, begins shipments to states immediately, and is expected to compliment the inoculation process already underway with Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines.  Written By: Adam Willis | × Dado Ruvic / REUTERS BISMARCK — With a single-dose vaccine newly authorized for use around the country, North Dakota's COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics Advisory Committee Monday, March 1, mulled distributio...

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