Texas health officials on Friday told vaccine providers across the state that they could resume using the one-dose COVID-19 Johnson & Johnson vaccine in all adult recipients after a federal health advisory panel recommended it be reinstated. The recommendation came 11 days after use of that particular vaccine was paused over a small number of reports of a rare but serious clotting side effect in recipients.
Hours later, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted the pause and recommended that providers begin resuming use of the vaccine immediately, with updated information and ...