Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360].
San Mateo County will resume administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to all eligible residents who wish to be immunized, after Bay Area Health Officials agreed with the findings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) along with the Western States Scientific Safety Review WSSSR? that the vaccine is safe.
And last Friday, April 23, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they will accept the ACIP recommendations to lift the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for all adults.
As of today, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and Solano Counties and the City of Berkeley will resume administering the Janssen vaccine to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community and thus avoid serious illness and more deaths.
In a statement, health officials in the region agree that the risk of developing the rare bleeding disorder is extremely low.
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