ORLANDO, Fla. – Central Florida vaccine sites were sent scrambling Tuesday after the Food and Drug Administration put a hold on the use of Johnson & Johnson vaccines due to six reports of a rare blood clot in patients who received the single-dose shot.
Orlando’s federally-supported vaccine site at Valencia College was reduced to handing out second doses only Tuesday after the news.
The site recently switched to giving out the single-dose shots. [TRENDING: Amber Alert for missing Fla. girl | COVID symptoms persist year after man wakes from coma | Tornadoes hit Polk County] It’s unclear how much the lack of a third vaccine will slow up efforts to vaccinate Americans but sites around Florida and the country are halting distributing the shots