{"id":48252,"date":"2021-04-13T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48252"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T21:19:43","slug":"fda-and-cdc-call-for-a-pause-on-johnson-johnson-vaccinations-due-to-clotting-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/04\/fda-and-cdc-call-for-a-pause-on-johnson-johnson-vaccinations-due-to-clotting-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA and CDC call for a pause on Johnson &#038; Johnson vaccinations due to clotting cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. regulators are calling for Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccinations to pause after reports and severe blood clots in six individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/JJ-VAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/JJ-VAC.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/JJ-VAC-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/JJ-VAC-768x471.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] confirmed that the agencies are reviewing data involving six reported US cases of women suffering from blood clots called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis [CVST].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC will convene a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP] on Wednesday to further review these cases and assess their potential significance. FDA will review that analysis as it also investigates these cases. Until that process is complete, the agencies are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution, the agencies said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today FDA and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CDCgov<\/a> issued a statement regarding the Johnson &amp; Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> vaccine. We are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution.<\/p>&mdash; U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/US_FDA\/status\/1381925612743499778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. regulators are calling for Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccinations to pause after reports and severe blood clots in six individuals. The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] and the Centers for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}