CDC Advisory Board Warns J&J Vax Causes Blood Clots & ‘May Lead to Death’

High rate of blood-clotting cases associated with Johnson & Johnson’s shot.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Fifteen members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to recommend against taking J&J’s vaccine after hearing updates that the incidence of blood clots from the J&J shot was higher than safety permits, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  • “The additional TTS cases and reported deaths are concerning,” Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot, a member of the committee, said Thursday.
  • “I just cannot recommend vaccines associated with a condition that may lead to death,” said committee member Pablo Sanchez, a pediatric infectious-disease specialist at the Ohio State University-Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Forbes reports. “I just have a real problem with a recommendation for anyone to get a vaccine that one per 100,000 women ages 30 to 49 years old will have a condition with a case fatality rate of 15%,” Sanchez added. “I’m not recommending it to any of my patients’ parents. I tell them to stay away from it.”
  • The vote came in 15 to 0 on Thursday to make the recommendation after also hearing reports the J&J jab induced low blood-platelet levels in patients.
  • CDC officials noted 54 cases of the condition, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), among J&J vaccine recipients in the U.S., CDC official Dr. Isaac See said.
  • Nine of the 54 cases resulted in deaths, CDC officials said.
  • The CDC must now decide whether or not to accept the committee’s recommendation.
BLOOD CLOTS MORE PREVALENT IN WOMEN:

Women between the ages of 30 and 49 are most affected by the blood clotting issue at a rate of about 1 in 100,000 shots, reports FOX News.

STARTLING FACT:

“CDC officials also said that among those who develop TTS, the fatality rate was about 15%. The people who died deteriorated quickly after being admitted to the hospital, officials said,” WSJ reports.

BACKGROUND:
  • Symptoms of blood clots—including severe headaches, abdominal pain, back pain, and nausea—usually occur 6 to 14 days after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to the American Society of Hematology, notes FOX News.
  • Earlier this year, federal health authorities paused the use of J&J’s vaccine while they investigated the condition TTS, WSJ reports.
  • 16.1 million people in the U.S. have received J&J’s shot, according to the CDC.
  • Only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported to the CDC, a 2010 Department of Health and Human Services report concluded.

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