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Dr. Wayne Altman said he has been receiving 400 vaccine doses a week to administer at his Arlington practice.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Back in March, when most people hunched over laptops for hours, frantic to schedule a vaccine appointment, John Brenner got a phone call that made it all so easy. It was his doctor, family physician Wayne Altman, inviting him in for a COVID-19 shot. On a Sunday morning, he drove 10 minutes to the doctor’s office in Arlington and received the vaccination in his car from a staff member he knew well. “It couldn’t have been easier,” said Brenn...

CVS, Walgreens to start administering Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine again Updated 7:05 AM; CVS and Walgreens are slated to begin administering the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine again after the federal government temporarily pressed pause on the use of the vaccine due to concerns about blood clots developing in a small number of inoculated women, WCVB reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration announced Friday the federal government will resume the use of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC and FDA had recom...

Massachusetts to resume getting shipments of J&J vaccine April 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is getting about 4,000 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week, and several pharmacy chains are expected to resume administering the shot this week after the federal government lifted its temporary pause on it, officials said Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration had recommended the pause due to concerns about blood clots in a tiny percentage of people who received the shot. The pause was lifted Frid...

Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine pause showed CDC, FDA tackling hesitancy by emphasizing safety, Dr. Anthony Fauci says Updated 12:03 PM; Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the recently-lifted pause of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine may surprise critics by putting a dent in vaccine hesitancy because it shows that the federal government is serious about safety. Responding to critics including FiveThirtyEight′s Nate Silver, who argued the pause was unnecessary because the blood clotting issue linked to the vaccine was extraordinarily rare, Fauci said the move would not create lasting ...

Massachusetts authorizes immediate use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine By Sofia Saric Globe Correspondent,Updated April 23, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Johnson & Johnson vaccines at the Chelsea Senior Center.Erin Clark/Globe Staff Massachusetts resumed use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Friday after US health officials decided its benefits outweigh a rare risk of blood clot. The Department of Public Health is notifying all providers they may administer Johnson & Johnson again, effective immediately, according to Kate Reilly, a spokeswoman for the state’s COVID-19 R...