Dr. Marc Siegel: COVID vaccines and fear – J&J pause was a big mistake. Here's why
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My mother-in-law recently left the hospital unvaccinated because of the FDA pause of the Johnson & Johnson shot. This was a far greater omission than any risk from a one in a million side effect had the vaccine been given.
Anti-fear messaging is important to clinicians like me who attempt to help patients put risks in perspective. As a doctor who has both studied outbreaks and also the impact they have had on the human psyche, I feel it is important to provide context at all times. Perspective is too often lost and replaced by emotional theater. Instead, perspective is too often lost and replaced by emotional theater, as it was this past week with the discovery that an extremely rare complication might be associated with the Johnson & Johnson adenovirus vector coronavirus vaccine.More Related News