The US temporary pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine will not interfere with President Joe Biden’s goal of making the nation look normal on Independence Day. said the dean of Brown University School of Public Health on Tuesday.
“I think this will be a mistake on the calendar in terms of vaccinating Americans,” Dr. Ashish Jha said. “I don’t think it affects the chronology at all.”
Federal health agencies warned on Tuesday that the United States should temporarily stop the use of the J&J single-dose vaccine after six women of the approximately 6.9 million people who received the information reported having blood clots. serious. Blood clots occurred in women between the ages of 18 and 48. One woman died and another is in critical condition. They all developed symptoms between 6 and 13 days after receiving the shot, according to the Centers for disease control and prevention and food and drug administration.
Jha told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that the precautionary measures were proof that “the system works” and that the government’s swift action could counteract the hesitation.
“My hope is that it actually builds confidence in people that we don’t take adverse events lightly and that we investigate them and that we really make sure that these vaccines are very, very safe.”
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reaffirmed that the break comes from “a lot of caution” and will give time to health researchers.
“You want to make sure security is the important issue here,” Fauci said during a White House press conference on Tuesday. “We are fully aware that this is a very rare event. We want this to be resolved as quickly as we can.”
Jha told host Shepard Smith that he “expects the break to last a few days,” and echoed Fauci’s statement about the rarity of blood clots.
“The key point here is that this is an incredibly rare and adverse event,” Jha said. “It’s not going to affect a lot of people, and I just think, out of a lot of caution, we’re just taking a break to see what else we can figure out.”