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AdvertisementBy Orlando SentinelApr 13, 2021 at 10:42 amGov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday the state will heed the federal government’s recommendation to pause the use of the Johnson &amp; Johnson coronavirus vaccine, but he added any risk appeared minimal and urged Floridians to get the one-dose shot if and when it becomes available again.“I don’t think people should be freaking out,” said DeSantis, who received the J&amp;J vaccine earlier this month.Advertisement“I think that what they’re doing is out of an abundance of caution,” he said at a press conference in Manatee County. “I don’t think people should be worried who have already had it, who haven’t had any effects. I think it’s likely going to be very effective for you. But given that they’re doing it, yeah, we feel that that’s the appropriate thing to do.”In a , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating clots in six women that occurred six to 13 days after vaccination.Advertisement”They found about half a dozen individuals who had blood clotting,” DeSantis said. “... So what I’d say is a couple of things. One, we have not seen any significant effects with J&amp;J here in Florida. I got J&amp;J. I think my arm was sore for 45 minutes. And then that was that. So I think the track record thus far in Florida has been good.”DeSantis added that there are numerous medications that people take daily with an equal or worse risk of blood clotting.He said any caution over the minimal risk of side effects, just six cases out of almost 7 million shots, should be balanced “against how many people are alive today because they had the J&amp;J vaccine.”“There’s no question that it saved lives already,” he said. “And so same with the Pfizer and the Moderna. ... Hopefully, they’ll do this quickly, get the information, and then hopefully we can move forward.”DeSantis said that J&amp;J production had recently gone down compared with Pfizer and Moderna, with shipments in the next two weeks expected to be much less than last week’s 300,000 doses.“And most of those J&amp;J shots were already used,” he said. “So in terms of availability, I think you’re still gonna have very robust availability of the vaccine.”The Associated Press contributed to this report. Advertisement

AdvertisementBy Orlando SentinelApr 13, 2021 at 10:42 amGov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday the state will heed the federal government’s recommendation to pause the use of the Johnson &amp; Johnson coronavirus vaccine, but he added any risk appeared minimal and urged Floridians to get the one-dose shot if and when it becomes available again.“I don’t think people should be freaking out,” said DeSantis, who received the J&amp;J vaccine earlier this month.Advertisement“I think that what they’re doing is out of an abundance of caution,” he said at a press conference in Manatee County. “I don’t think...

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