President Biden’s chief medical officer said he expected Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to be used in the US again by Friday, after a hiatus due to concerns about blood clots in several patients.
“I would be very surprised … if we do not have a resumption in some form on Friday,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS’s “Face the Nation”. That said, he said Sunday on other networks.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday recommended suspending the use of J & J’s single-dose shot out of sheer caution, while investigating reports of the six women who received the vaccine and subsequently developed severe blood clots. The women were between 18 and 48 years old. One it died.
More than 7.2 million doses of the J&J vaccine have been administered in the USA; About 1.5 million of the doses went to women between the ages of 18 and 50 years.
J&J said Friday there was not enough evidence to establish that the company’s Covid-19 vaccine caused the rare blood clotting condition that U.S. health officials had asked this week to suspend its use.