Vaccine Pause

After practice yesterday Cameron told me that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had been put on pause.  Six people had developed a rare blood disorder that led to life threatening blood clots.  One of them had actually died from the presumed vaccine side effect.  At first it sounded scary.  Both Doug and Nick had had the one and done shot already.  I was concerned about them until Cameron said that it was six individuals out of 7 million people that had been vaccinated.  All were women of child bearing age and there was discussion already that it may have been from birth control hormones.  Since neither Doug nor Nick fit in the high risk category, I stopped worrying.  Doug and I talked about the signs of a blood clot just to be informed and Meg checked in with Nick about it as well.

Today the after effects of the vaccine being put on pause hit closer to home.  Cal was scheduled to have the Johnson & Johnson one at the Speedway in Indy on Sunday April 25th.  It was the perfect fit for him as it was the only day that he was available in the month of April to get the shot and it would have meant only one trip down state for him.  I spent all of tonight trying to come up with a different plan for him, but the only other place to hold a mass vaccination clinic on a Sunday was in Gary.  The area it was set up in gave Doug pause, so in the end we decided to wait a few more days to make a decision.  The FDA and CDC had promised to make a decision on the J & J vaccine as quickly as possible.  Every time I think that we have moved passed Covid, it just seems to raise its ugly head once again.