On April 12, 2021, the FDA and CDA came out with a joint statement that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine will be on a pause and should not be administered until they get to the bottom of these cases where people who got the J&J vaccine are dealing with blood clots. There are six cases of this certain situation out of the 6. 8 million J&J Vaccinations that have been administered.

NPR says, ““In these cases, a type of blood clot called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) was seen in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia),” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, and Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “All six cases occurred among women between the ages of 18 and 48, and symptoms occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination.” 

Although these circumstances are extremely rare, they are doing this out of caution and to make sure this certain situation does not happen again to anyone else. 

It is important to note that the other Corona Virus Vaccination Pfizer and Moderna and not made with the same build so these recent side effects of the Johnson and Johnson Vaccination will not follow through to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccination. 

“All three vaccines are based on the genetic instructions for building the COVID spike protein, the part of the virus that invades human cells. The mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna inject a solution containing RNA into your arm, which instructs your body to begin making a harmless piece of the protein that then triggers the immune system so it can mount a strong response if you later encounter the actual virus. Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine works in a similar way, but stores the genetic instructions in DNA instead. The gene is inserted in a modified cold virus called an adenovirus. The company used the same approach to make its new Ebola vaccine.”  

A big attraction for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was the fact that people only needed one shot, versus the other two which have a 21 or 28 day waiting period after their first shot. This was very easy for people who did not want to wait or who were looking forward to getting back to life as soon as possible. 

Recent information has come out and it says that there is a greater chance of getting blood clots from Covid- 19 than any of the vaccinations. 

CNBC says, “However, Parikh said that when looking “at the big picture” based on currently available information, “the benefits still far outweigh the risks of this vaccination.”

Overall, this is a lot of information at one time and the world and country is trying to understand what to do with this and how to process it.