In addition to being a single dose, the J&J vaccine "is easier to store than the two mRNAthat require freezing," said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University. "That adds to the complexity of trying to set up vaccinations in settings that are not clinical."
"We certainly hope that that the pause is a temporary one," Kevin Madden, chair of the jail oversight board and a Delaware County council member, told ABC News. "If that pause lasts too long, then perhaps we can revisit the conversation with GEO about moving to an alternative vaccination." While there's no official tracking system for vaccinations in correctional settings, 137,064 people in state or federal prisons had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of April 1, out of roughly 2.2 million incarcerated people nationwide, according to anBefore the Johnson & Johnson pause, in Pennsylvania "very few county facilities had even begun to start vaccinating incarcerated people," Shubik-Richards said.
Shubik-Richards pointed to the infamous Holmesburg Prison experiments, during which a Philadelphia dermatologist, as well as more dangerous drugs, like the herbicide dioxin, on people in prison. "It's not ancient history," Shubik-Richards said of the prison experiments, some of which lasted well into the 1970s.
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