The Johnson&Johnson Pause Shows The System Is Working - a podcast by FiveThirtyEight, Anna Rothschild

from 2021-04-13T22:06:40

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Federal health agencies asked states to pause in their use of the Johnson&Johnson vaccine while U.S. officials investigate reports of an extremely rare blood-clotting syndrome that has developed in six people who have received the vaccine. Given how few people are sick, why did the U.S. recommend a pause? And what's it say about how the monitoring system is working?