{"id":121691,"date":"2021-04-17T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/dr-peter-hotez-the-fda-and-cdc-really-had-no-choice-but-to-pause-johnson-johnson-vaccine"},"modified":"2021-04-17T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:22:17","slug":"dr-peter-hotez-the-fda-and-cdc-really-had-no-choice-but-to-pause-johnson-johnson-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/dr-peter-hotez-the-fda-and-cdc-really-had-no-choice-but-to-pause-johnson-johnson-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Peter Hotez: \u2018The FDA and CDC really had no choice\u2019 but to pause Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dr-peter-hotez-the-fda-and-cdc-really-had-no-choice-but-to-pause-johnson-johnson-vaccine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children\u2019s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, joins Ali Velshi to discuss the \u201cpause\u201d on the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine in the United States after the discovery of 6 rare cases of blood clotting in women who were immunized with the shot. The goal, says Hotez, is to identify a specific group who might be at higher risk, and that requires a little time. \u201cEven though the U.S. Has other options, many countries don\u2019t. For many countries, all they have are the J &amp; J, AstraZeneca vaccine and the Russian Sputnik V vaccine,\u201d all of which are non-mNRA and have the potential to behave similarly. Says Hotez, \u201cIt is critical to sort this out not only to protect American citizens, but to protect the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children\u2019s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, joins Ali Velshi to discuss the \u201cpause\u201d on the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine in the United States after the discovery of 6 rare cases of blood clotting in women who were immunized with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}