Replace 4/23/2021 7:00pm ET: The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and the Meals and Drug Administration introduced late Friday that the pause on using Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine is now lifted.
The announcement comes simply hours after a panel of CDC advisors voted largely in favor of resuming use, reaffirming its suggestion that or not it’s utilized in all adults.
The 2 businesses paused use on April 13 after six girls developed harmful blood clots after receiving the vaccine. Although the CDC confirmed 9 further circumstances in the course of the 11-day pause, the businesses and their advisors decided that the advantages of the vaccine vastly outweigh dangers of the extraordinarily uncommon situation.
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