'We can't afford to miss it': Doctors on alert for rare blood clots linked to J&J vaccine
Doctors across the country are on high alert for rare blood clots linked to the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine since the shot was put on pause Tuesday.
"We can't afford to miss it," said Dr. Mary Cushman, a hematologist and medical director of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Program at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
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Administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was put on hold Tuesday, after six recipients developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, or CVST, clots in blood vessels leading out of the brain, in combination with low levels of platelets.