A COVID-19 vaccination site in Colorado closed early Wednesday after patients experienced adverse reactions to Johnson & Johnson’s one-vaccine.
Centura Health, which helps run the community vaccination center at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, said in a statement on Twitter that 11 patients who received the vaccine had experienced adverse reactions.
Only two of the patients were taken to the hospitals for further observation ‘out of abundance of caution’.
An update on today’s mass vaccination clinic at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park pic.twitter.com/TgwWimfqVj
– Centura Health (@CenturaHealth) 7 April 2021
Centura Health said the number of people experiencing adverse events equated to 0.62 percent of the more than 1,700 people vaccinated on the premises on Wednesday. The 640 patients who could not be vaccinated were scheduled to be vaccinated on April 11th.
In a separate statement, government officials said there was no reason for others to be vaccinated at the site on Wednesday.
“The state has no reason to believe that people vaccinated today at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park should be concerned,” the statement said. Adverse reactions are usually immediate. Healthcare providers monitor patients for reactions after vaccination for at least 15 minutes after the injection (or for 30 minutes if the patient has a history of anaphylaxis) for this reason. This event has no effect on other vaccine providers. ”
Officials say nearly 80,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine have been administered in Colorado since early March. Overall, more than 1.9 million people in the state at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 1,145,039 were fully vaccinated.
The USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that nausea, fever, cills and fatigue are one of the possible side effects that can occur after vaccination. They usually start within a day or two after vaccination and should disappear within a few days.
Clinical trials have shown that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is 66 percent effective to prevent COVID-19, and 85 percent effective in preventing serious cases.