One Vax Fits Most
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🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Only a handful of blood-clotting cases have been reported among recipients of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, but it's predominantly women who have developed these rare symptoms. To answer questions about the “one dose fits all” mode of medical research that can occasionally lead to these kinds of outcomes, we spoke to Rosemary Morgan, a research scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She’s currently studying the gendered effects of COVID-19 on several international communities.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 16th. I'm a Healy Hughes. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what today the podcast that we are giving away free to anyone who's gotten the vaccine. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah, also free. You haven't gotten the vaccine yet, but yeah, what Gideon said. It's true. |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah, we don't know if podcasts can technically be sold. |
| 0:36.3 | Today, we're monitoring the fatal shooting of 13 year old Adam Toledo by police in Chicago more than two weeks ago, who was holding his hands up. |
| 0:43.6 | Bodycam footage of the killing was released yesterday after intense public pressure. |
| 0:47.4 | I won't be watching the video, but we'll link to that ongoing story in our show notes. |
| 0:52.0 | But first, the latest for today, where we wanted to recap one of the week's biggest news stories, |
| 0:56.1 | the nationwide temporary pause on administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine. |
| 1:00.6 | Even before this development, Bloomberg News reported that certain US states and cities had a growing surplus of doses by all manufacturers. |
| 1:07.7 | It's signaled that there are some pockets of people hesitant to get the shot. |
| 1:11.6 | And so this recent news isn't the best for making sure everyone gets in line so we can achieve herd immunity soon. |
| 1:18.0 | But we're focusing on the most sensational headlines that the first reported cases of the rare blood clotting disorder occurred in six women. |
| 1:24.8 | Johnson and Johnson later reported that there were two more cases of people who also developed blood clots, |
| 1:29.9 | including one 25 year old man who participated in the trials. |
| 1:33.6 | Right, but the fact that it's predominantly women who developed these rare symptoms, |
| 1:36.8 | got us thinking about a longstanding problem in the medical research field, accounting for the ways that men, |
| 1:41.8 | women, children, people of various races, and more all react differently to vaccines or drugs. |
| 1:47.7 | There are pitfalls in thinking that there's always a one dose fits all. |
| 1:51.6 | So we wanted to dive deep into this issue with an expert in the field. |
| 1:55.2 | Rose Mary Morgan is a research scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 2:00.1 | She's also the associate chair in inclusion, diversity, |
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