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. T

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.