People do make errors and have biases. So do public health professionals. The passive death and disability from COVID19 is weighed far less than the active dea

People do make errors and have biases. So do public health professionals. The passive death and disability from COVID19 is weighed far less than the active death of side-effects. Providing J&J to everyone in the US would obviously reduce spread and reduce the thousand-or-so deaths we're continuing to see in the US every day by far more than blood clots. In general, doctors leave medical decision making to patients, is central to medical ethics. This even applies to patients with incomplete capacity.