Seven million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have been administered and there have been blood clot issues with six people. I just checked and you are twice as likely to be hit by lightning (1 out of 500,000) than to get a blood clot from the J&J vaccine.
If we were all in the military and at war, I can tell you it would be a no-brainer — keep administering the vaccine since the dangers from the disease are greater and more likely to impact a person than the blood clotting issue.
BUT, we are not all in the military and we, while at war with the virus, are not in a traditional war. So, I’ll leave the decision-making to the FDA and the CDC. I expect this will be resolved quickly, but, as is the case with the AstraZeneca vaccine, it will give it a black eye that will cause people to avoid getting vaccinated — with that particular vaccine or, in some cases, any vaccine at all.
