I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Saturday and I'm wondering why are we

pausing the vaccine roll out when it's just six people out of several million

people who have received this vaccine who have had these serious side effects.

What I'm really wondering is what these symptoms really are. They seem very similar

to the symptoms that I experienced immediately after getting the vaccine and I'm

now really nervous as to whether they were blood clot symptoms or just normal

expected symptoms post COVID vaccine. Why are both the FDA and the CDC

recommending that this vaccine be temporarily halted? Doesn't the benefit of

vaccinating more Americans outweigh the risks posed by the vaccine?

There are a lot of questions right now about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19

vaccine. As you probably know by now yesterday morning the CDC and the FDA

recommended that the United States pause the use of the J&J vaccine while they

look into six reported cases of people who develop blood clots after receiving

the vaccine. Essentially those six people experienced a stroke-like condition in

which they're blood clotted in a very specific part of the brain, the blood

vessels that drain blood away from the brain. In addition that was combined with a

low platelet count. Now all six of those cases were women between the ages of 18

and 48 who had received their shots one to two weeks earlier. In one of those

cases a 45-year-old woman died according to federal records. So obviously this

is a serious condition that we're talking about but it is also extremely rare.

While those cases are now being investigated further J&J has decided to

pause all vaccinations in all of their clinical trials including in adolescence.

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