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Originally Posted by FromNY

Those that want a vaccine will get it. Those who are against vaccine, no changing their minds.
That being said ,notice as soon as J&J was stopped or even before its numbers decreased, Pfizer and Moderna were substituted. Seems there is an over abundance of those drugs that need to go into arms.?? Money was paid for how many millions of doses? J &J was the late comer. Most people want easy one and done. Yes abundance of caution is a good thing if done for all the vaccines. Just wondering if there is something else going on.? Push people to get the two shots more money? Use up supply, stock price driven?

I really believe there are some things that would change the minds of those that are declining vaccine now. One is if one of their loved ones gets hospitalized or dies with Covid. The mayor of Ocala after he got Covid changed his tune and Ocala has a mask mandate for businesses that he opposed until he personally got sick

Days after his discharge from the hospital, Guinn was back at work. Earlier this week, city officials decided to extend Ocala's mask mandate, a measure he has vetoed in the past.

Next is if political opinionators who have downplayed Covid for over a year push their followers to get vaccinated. One leader is very upset that the J & J vaccines have been paused as he feels that he was the person who made it possible. He ought to tell his followers that the vaccine is really important and that he got a vaccine as early as he could even though he'd had Covid. You can't say the disease is low risk then complain about the vaccine being paused. A 30 second public service TV ad saying "The vaccine is important, it is safe, it is effective. I got it as did my wife and all my family and I want all of you to get vaccinated as soon as possible to make America safe and make you and your family safe." I think that would change a lot of minds.

Lastly why do you wonder if "something else is going on"? All the vaccines are being given and all are having side effects tracked. Individual physicians are reporting the clots to the FDA and in journal reports both in the US and in Europe. These clot reports are not being generated by BIG PHARMA or by any secret cabal. You can read the recent New England Journal of Medicine issues to review some of the case reports
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and HERE
and HERE

The vaccines are paid for whether they go into arms or not. If you really believe that some group at the FDA with the CDC and the similar European agencies and the editors of all the medical journals are conspiring to hurt J & J after this country has given the corporation money to get the vaccine to market and has already contracted to buy the product, I can't help you. Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is almost always right. The pause is in place because of REAL reports from the field of clots. As there are products which have not had that complication reported those products can continue to be used. The products with clotting concerns, J&J here and AZ in Europe, have been paused while a determination of whether the vaccine is causal is analyzed, and if it is causal, whether there is just a segment of the population that is at risk or is everyone at risk.

And REALLY IMPORTANTLY, the pause made physicians and the public aware of the need to be attentive to complaints of new severe headache or other neurological symptoms in the period following a vaccine, and the doctors now know what to look for and really importantly not to use heparin which is the reflexive response to clots.

From the CDC

CDC and FDA recommended this pause to communicate with and prepare the healthcare system to recognize and treat patients appropriately. Communication with healthcare providers will also emphasize the importance of reporting and how to report severe events in people who have received this vaccine. This pause also will allow CDC’s independent advisory committee, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, to meet, review these cases, and assess their potential significance.