OLYMPIA, Washington, U.S. – (AP) – Johnson & Johnson vaccine inoculations may now resume in Washington state after an expert review in a Western states task force, it announced Saturday. local governor Jay Inslee.
According to The Seattle Times, the Western States Scientific Safety Review task force – vaccine experts from Washington, California, Oregon, and Nevada – met on Friday to review information on the potential risks of inoculation after vaccination. that more than a dozen women had rare cases of thrombosis, in various parts of the country.
“The benefits of the J&J vaccine outweigh the risks associated with it,” Inslee said in a statement.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requested on Friday that the 11-day hiatus to the vaccination after federal authorities reviewed the information on thrombosis cases and evaluated the risks associated with the vaccine.
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