Isn’t It Ironic: A Nurse Reflects on Her J&J Vaccination
Irony: a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects
and is often amusingas a result. -dictionary.com
On a recent Saturday afternoon I received the Johnson and Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. The following Tuesday, its further administration was put on pause, “out of an abundance of caution,” after reports that six women between the ages of 18 and 48 developed a rare but serious form of blood clot six to 13 days after receiving the vaccine. One of the six women died.
There is nothing amusing about the irony that people seeking protection from COVID-19 may have developed a life-threatening adverse reaction from the vaccine. For health care providers, and perhaps especially for nurses, such events are heartbreaking.
Lifting the J&J pause.
On Friday, April 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the FDA lifted the 10-day pause on the J&J vaccine, without restrictions, instead issuing a fact sheet to medical providers warning them of the potential for the extremely rare but serious blood clots.
When the pause was lifted, over 7 million people had received the vaccine, with additional confirmed cases of blood clots that had been […]