The J & J Pause, Explained — And What It Means For The U.S. Vaccination Effort
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
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The pause comes at a time when public health officials face the growing challenge of vaccine hesitancy, as NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports.
NPR's Tamara Keith and Pien Huang explain the science behind the pause, and how it's occurring at a challenging moment for the Biden administration.
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| 0:00.0 | Scientists are trying to emphasize the numbers. |
| 0:03.3 | This is a really rare event. |
| 0:05.5 | If you look at what we know so far, |
| 0:08.0 | they have been six out of the six. |
| 0:10.7 | 0.85 million doses, |
| 0:13.1 | which is less than one in a million. |
| 0:15.7 | As Dr. Anthony Fauci explained at the White House on Tuesday, |
| 0:19.9 | after reports of six people developing rare, |
| 0:23.3 | but potentially serious blood clots, |
| 0:25.9 | the CDC and FDA are recommending a pause |
| 0:29.5 | in the use of Johnson and Johnson's COVID vaccine. |
| 0:32.4 | We are totally aware that this is a very rare event. |
| 0:35.9 | We want to get this worked out as quickly as we possibly can. |
| 0:39.8 | And that's why you see the word pause. |
| 0:41.8 | Fauci emphasized a few other things. |
| 0:44.1 | One, anyone who got the shot a month ago |
| 0:46.8 | or longer faces very low risk. |
| 0:49.9 | And their vaccine is no less effective. |
| 0:52.6 | Two Pfizer and Moderna, |
| 0:54.6 | the other vaccines currently authorized for use in the US |
| 0:57.5 | work in a very different way than the J&J shot. |
| 1:00.7 | No such issues have been reported with those vaccines. |
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