Fauci: Johnson & Johnson Shot Could Return on Friday With Warning Label

Photo: Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag The short but damaging pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine could be over as soon as Friday, according to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“I don’t want to get ahead of the CDC and the FDA and the advisory committee, but I would imagine that what we will say is: that it would come back and it would come back in some sort of either warning or restriction,” he said on Meet the Press Sunday, referring to the federal agencies that temporarily halted the use of the candidate due to extremely rare but severe cases of blood clotting. Six Americans out of around 7.

Also on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal provided more details into the decision to pause the Johnson & Johnson shot. While health authorities came close to issuing just a warning, they recommended a temporary suspension in part because the rare clotting was made worse in four of the six patients by heparin, which is a common treatment for clotting.

Though the Johnson & Johnson shot could ultimately be off the market for less than two weeks, the pause is the most significant challenge to the vaccine rollout since it gained momentum late this winter. It also appears to have increased vaccine hesitancy in the United States, as Intelligencer’s Paola Rosa-Aquino notes: “Early data from an Economist/YouGov poll suggests the news of the clots and the decision to pause may have dented public perception on the vaccine.

The trouble with Johnson & Johnson has emerged at the same time as several important milestones in the historic effort to end the pandemic: As of Sunday, 65 percent of those over 65 are fully vaccinated and 50 percent of all adults have received at least one dose. On Monday, the Biden administration will launch a new media blitz promoting the fact that all Americans are now eligible to sign up for a shot.

I'm guessing this has way more to do with placating attorneys than scientists.

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