CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat says the risk is "very low" if you were vaccinated more than a month ago.

HT @therecount #COVID19 #CovidVaccine #JohnsonandJohnson
2) Here is the live teleconference. FDA says it might be a “class effect” of J&J and AstraZeneca both adenovirus vaccines. But unclear.

3) this specific type of clot is “very very rare” that FDA doesn’t even know what the background rate is in the population, says FDA Dr Peter Marks.
4) “I hesitate to call it a class effect”, says Marks. “But I think it is plainly obvious to us already that what we're seeing with the Janssen vaccine looks very similar to what was being seen with the AstraZeneca vaccine."

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