EDITORIAL | It’s a cruel blow, but SA has to follow expert vaccine advice

As SA faces curveballs in the vaccine rollout, the difficulty is to find the balance between risk and rationality

13 April 2021 - 20:05 By sunday times daily

A recommendation by the US Food and Drug Administration yesterday to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine warrants serious conversation. It is investigating cases of an extremely rare blood clotting disorder in six women, all among the seven million recipients of the vaccine in the US. It developed within two weeks of them receiving the jab. One of the women died...

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