By Dr. Stuart Weiss, Intelligent Crowd Solutions – Rapid Test Center of NY

Rapid Test Center of New York
Dr. Stuart Weiss, FACEP, FAAP, CBCP

April 14, 2021 CoViD-19 News and Information you can trust. Welcome new readers from the Rapid Test Center. Topics: Follow up on the use of Johnson and Johnson CoViD-19 vaccine

Follow up on the use of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine Today, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met in an emergency meeting. They recommended that the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine stay on pause until they gather more data. They will most likely meet again in the next 7-10 days so the pause will last at least 2 weeks.  During the meeting, more details about the six women affected emerged. None of the women had clotting disorders. One was taking birth control pills which can also lead to blood clots. Three were obese and one each had low thyroid, high blood pressure and asthma. All of them were Caucasian. Also discussed was a case of a brain clot in a 25 year old male who participated in the J&J trial last October. As I discussed yesterday, these rare clots were seen with both the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines. Both use weakened adenovirus as their delivery mechanism. In Europe, regulators have tracked 62 cases of brain clots with 18 fatalities, mostly in females in people who received the AstraZenica vaccine, according to CIDRAP news. The White House today said that the US vaccine supply will not be significantly affected by the pause in J&J vaccine usage. Patients scheduled to receive the J&J vaccine are being rescheduled with one of the other two approved vaccines.  So here’s the problem we face with this. This potential issue will further promote vaccine hesitancy across our country especially with regard to the J&J vaccine. Its hard to imagine that people will be happy to get the J&J vaccine no matter what the studies show when there are two other vaccines without the clotting issue available. We will have to see what happens over the next few weeks. I still tell you to get your self vaccinated quickly so we can get through this together. Dr. Stu Weiss Sign Up For Our NewsletterCOMPANY WEBINARS If you need a custom webinar for your employees to keep them up to date, we can help. Talk to us about company specific webinars. Client suggested topics: Covid-19 Disease Update How to cope with work from home Dealing with psychological stress Q & A session for employees Home monitoring and quarantine We can design a webinar that meets your needs. click the button below .iCrowd.com website