US HEALTH officials nearly issued warning on Johnson & Johnson vaccine as Dr Fauci confirmed the jab pause will end next week.
Dr Anthony Fauci said that he expected officials would decide the vaccine’s future by the end of this week and predicted it would return with some restrictions.
“By Friday, we should have an answer as to where we’re going with it, he said on ABC News’s “This Week.”
“I would think that we’re not going to go beyond Friday in the extension of this pause.”
Fauci said that it was possible for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to return with some restrictions.
“My estimate is that we will continue to use it in some form. I doubt very seriously if they just cancel it.
“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” he said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”
“I do think that there will likely be some sort of warning or restriction or risk assessment. I don’t think it’s just going to go back and say, ‘Okay, everything’s fine. Go right back.’
“I think it’ll likely say, ‘Okay, we’re going to use it, but be careful under these certain circumstances.'”
He also said to CNN’s “State of the Union: “I don’t want to get ahead of the CDC and the FDA and the advisory committee, but I would imagine that what we will say is: that it would come back and it would come back in some sort of either warning or restriction.”
Earlier this week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration asked states to temporarily halt J&J’s jab “out of an abundance of caution” after nine women in the US developed a rare blood-clotting disorder.
Those who were jabbed with the temporarily-shelved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should be “alert to some symptoms”, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday.
“This is a very rare event. It’s less than one in a million,” he told CBS News.
“Having said that, you still wanna be alert to some symptoms, such as severe headache, some difficulty in movement, or some chest discomfort and difficulty breathing.”
Back in March, Johnson & Johnson halted Covid-19 vaccine shipments from one plant after 15million doses were ruined in a disastrous factory mix-up.
