J&J paus­es vac­cine roll­out as feds probe rare cas­es of blood clots

The FDA and CDC have joint­ly de­cid­ed to stop ad­min­is­ter­ing J&J’s Covid-19 vac­cine af­ter re­view­ing da­ta in­volv­ing six re­port­ed US cas­es of a rare and se­vere type of blood clot in in­di­vid­u­als af­ter re­ceiv­ing the vac­cine.

CDC will con­vene a meet­ing of its Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee on Im­mu­niza­tion Prac­tices on Wednes­day to fur­ther re­view these cas­es and as­sess their po­ten­tial sig­nif­i­cance. “FDA will re­view that analy­sis as it al­so in­ves­ti­gates these cas­es. Un­til that process is com­plete, we are rec­om­mend­ing a pause in the use of this vac­cine out of an abun­dance of cau­tion,” Pe­ter Marks, di­rec­tor of the FDA’s Cen­ter for Bi­o­log­ics Eval­u­a­tion and Re­search and Anne Schuchat, Prin­ci­pal Deputy Di­rec­tor of the CDC, said in a joint state­ment Tues­day morn­ing.

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