US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by AndrewBissell on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:41PM (#26796101)

> oh and is 100% effective at stopping you from dying. Literally no one that has received the vaccine has died from COVID19.

This is misinformation (and I call it that because it is being widely repeated in major new sources). It's an improper generalization from what was observed in a very small sample of confirmed Covid cases in the vaccine trials.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/04/11/3-breakthro...

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by lefrancaiz on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:43PM (#26796158)

You're correct. NPR has reported some deaths in vaccinated people in this article. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/13/9864114...

>So far, more than 74 million people have gotten fully vaccinated in the United States. It's unclear how many have later gotten infected with the coronavirus anyway. But Michigan, Washington and other states have reported hundreds of cases. Most people have gotten only mildly ill, but some have gotten very sick. Some have even died.

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