Should you get the J&J vaccine anyway if you are offered it, to do your part? The most practical piece of information in this thread might be that it seems like states are swapping out J&J shots with Pfizer or Moderna shots. One part of that nightmare is the continuation of the feeling that every individual choice we make now suddenly has the potential to affect everyone else-this has been the whole deal with distancing and staying home and wearing a mask, only now it’s about how quickly you can get the vaccine and how important that is for getting to herd immunity and stopping the variants. Reading through the replies to this tweet, and the general “online” conversation about this small finding that needs to be investigated further, feels like a nightmare, a similar brand of nightmare to the pandemic nightmare that we have all been living through for a year now.
A lot of people are saying that means there’s a one-in-a-million chance that you’ll get the J&J and have a clot, which isn’t quite right-there might be other cases that we don’t know about, and if it’s really only affecting women of a certain age, the denominator of this equation should be adjusted from “everyone who has taken J&J” to “women age 18-48 who have taken J&J.” So yes, on a population level, it might be concerning.
There are six cases of these blood clots reported, among those, one death. As of yesterday in the U.S., 6.8 million people had gotten the J&J vaccine. It’s also possible that there will be a very, very small number of people who have the same weird medical event right after they get the vaccine-a coincidence that freaks everyone out. With any vaccine, it’s possible that after it hits the market, there will be side effects that it causes in a very, very tiny number of people. But now we are giving it to a ton more people than could ever participate in the trials, which means the FDA is watching very carefully to see if anything concerning pops up. Here is what we do know: The vaccine passed all the safety standards it had to pass during the clinical trials. If the vaccine does cause something bad, it’s probably a very, very rare something. What is actually happening with the J&J vaccine? We don’t really know yet.
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