US health officials call for pause in use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine over rare blood clots

The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a joint statement earlier Tuesday urging states to stop administering the J&J shots, after news broke of six women who were diagnosed with “stroke-like illnesses” after taking the vaccine.

A decision by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to pause administration of a new coronavirus vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson is raising concerns among public health experts that it will impede vaccine acceptance across the country.