‘Women more at risk’ from Johnson & Johnson vaccine as nine suffer clots and Fauci warns to be alert to symptoms
WOMEN jabbed with the temporarily-shelved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should be “alert to some symptoms”, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday - as nine females have suffered blood clots.
“This is a very rare event. It's less than one in a million,” he told CBS News on Wednesday.
"For example, that's when autoimmune diseases start to appear, that's when birth control pills are being used, so there may be other factors involved."
On Wednesday, federal health agencies put a pause on the administration of the vaccine so that “extremely rare” cases of blood clots (so far there have been 9 atypical reported cases out of millions of doses) can be investigated.
Two of those cases were discovered during clinical trials and the rest were reported after the company received clearance to start injecting.
"This morning, the FDA and CDC announced that out of an abundance of caution, we are recommending a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, due to reports of six cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot following vaccination administration,” .
"We're recommending this pause while we work together to fully understand these events and also so we can get information out to healthcare providers and vaccine recipients."