Extending the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause for a Week Was a Deadly Mistake
Document Type
Article
Year
2021
Citation Information
Govind Persad and William Fiske Parker, Extending the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause for a Week Was a Deadly Mistake, (2021), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2022.
Abstract
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) this week made no recommendation on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, meaning the CDC's initial decision to pause administration of the vaccine will likely remain in place until at least next Friday.
As a result, 10 million doses of the vaccine will sit unused in refrigerators as hundreds of thousands of Americans are infected with COVID-19. As infections and hospitalizations rise in many states, slowing down vaccinations was a deadly mistake.