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J&J Vaccine Back in Circulation After Clotting Scare

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Americans have long appeared to be somewhat hesitant about the idea of a vaccine for COVID-19, with many suggesting that the speed in which these jabs were developed makes them inherently unsafe.

And, furthermore, a great deal of vaccine hesitancy comes from the longstanding distrust that Americans have for their government, and the possibility that there could be a mandate that creates second class citizens out of the unvaccinated masses.

Now, after a brief pause, the J&J version of the vaccine is back in circulation…but at what cost?

An advisory panel heard about a few more cases of blood clots among recipients Friday, but nonetheless told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine should resume. Vaccinations with the product have been suspended for 11 days. The vote was 10-4, NBC reports. “Today’s presentations and discussions have convinced me that lifting the pause on J&J’s vaccine is in the best public health interest of the US population,” said Dr. Henry Bernstein, one of the panel members. It’s not clear when the shots could resume, but the CDC said it will make a decision on accepting the recommmendation quickly. Along with the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC had urged the pause on April 13, after reports of six women, out of more than 7 million recipients, developing blood clots in the brain after a Johnson & Johnson shot.

Despite the findings of the CDC, the flip-flopping advice itself is a surefire way to increase vaccine hesitancy among Americans, thus slowing down the economic recovery that appears to be imminent at this point.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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