J&J It Again, Sam
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What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The CDC and the FDA have lifted their recommended pause on the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine, and added a warning label about the very, very rare reported cases of blood clots. But overall vaccination rates in the US are slowing down, indicating that while supply is increasing, demand is decreasing.
President Biden lifted the partial ban against the export of the supplies necessary to make vaccines in India, as well as rapid tests, ventilators, and more. The state of the virus there is dire: on Saturday, India reported almost 350,000 new cases, which is a tragic world record.
Plus, we talk through the Oscars. And in headlines: Biden formally recognizes the Armenian Genocide, Disneyland to re-open on Friday, and Elon Musk will host SNL.
Show Notes –
NYT: "Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines" – https://nyti.ms/3gR8uJ5
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, April 26th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we are sad that none of our big |
| 0:12.3 | Oscar reactions got turned into gifts last night. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, it sucks for us because they're introducing a gift category next year at the Oscars |
| 0:18.9 | and we're not going to qualify. |
| 0:20.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:21.8 | This is what you've done to us. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, America finally lends a hand to India on COVID relief, but first the |
| 0:35.2 | latest where officials say the J and J is A. Okay. |
| 0:38.9 | The risk of aspirin inducing a significant intestinal bleed is much higher than what we're |
| 0:44.9 | talking about here. |
| 0:46.5 | Something in the neighborhood of one in 500, one in a thousand for people who regularly |
| 0:50.2 | take aspirin. |
| 0:51.8 | We're talking about something here's about a thousand times less likely to happen. |
| 0:56.5 | Damn, put me off aspirin. |
| 0:58.4 | All right. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, that was Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, putting |
| 1:02.9 | into context the relative risks associated with the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine. |
| 1:07.3 | The news is that last Friday, the CDC at FDA lifted their recommended pause on those shots |
| 1:12.5 | so they can go in arms again. |
| 1:14.5 | But Gideon, tell us about the caveats. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, that's right. |
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