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Its not being administered right now.. they put a hold on it, for whatever reason..
The following is an excerpt from an article explaining why the administering of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been paused. I did not post the whole article as it it lengthy. However the link is below if you choose to read it.
Johnson & Johnson Vaccinations Paused After Rare Clotting Cases EmergeBy Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Carl Zimmer
Published April 13, 2021, Updated April 15, 2021, 9:08 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Injections of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine came to a sudden halt across the country on Tuesday after federal health agencies called for a pause in the vaccine’s use as they examine a rare blood-clotting disorder that emerged in six recipients.
All six were women between the ages of 18 and 48, and all developed the illness within one to three weeks of vaccination. One woman in Virginia died, and a second woman in Nebraska has been hospitalized in critical condition.
More than seven million people in the United States have received Johnson & Johnson shots so far, and another 10 million doses have been shipped out to the states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution,” Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the C.D.C., said in a joint statement. “Right now, these adverse events appear to be extremely rare.”
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