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When did the FDA ban Johnson&Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines? Why?

• ummonk 6y ago
  Enrollment of people into the studies had been paused after some people in the respective studies had suffered health issues that needed to be investigated to determine whether they were adverse reactions or not. As I understand it, both pauses ended over a month ago, and there hasn't been any "ban".
  • manacit 6y ago
    As someone who just received a J&J vaccine or a placebo, I can definitively say that at least the one is not banned currently. Both studies were paused, as is customary, due to medical complications from someone in the study. Upon investigation it was deemed in both cases to likely have not come from the vaccine, and the trials were resumed.
• tssva 6y ago
  Your and likely most people's interpretation when they hear "ban" is that the FDA took some active step to specifically ban the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines. The other interpretation is that all pharmaceutical drugs are banned by default and that approving a drug is actually removing that ban. I suspect the original commenter was using "ban" in this context.