Health officials later paused J&J vaccinations for 11 days, but restarted them on April 23 after scientific advisers decided the shot’s benefits outweighed a rare risk of blood clot found in 15 vaccine recipients out of nearly 8 million people given the shot. J&J’s single-dose COVID-19 shot was authorized for emergency use in the U.S. The Fact Sheets contain detailed prescribing information, including ingredients, dosage and administration, warnings and contraindications.” “This process ensures vaccinators and consumers have the most up-to-date Fact Sheets available to them, with reflecting any revisions made in alignment with the FDA. “The package insert states that the front and back panels of the insert were intentionally left blank, with Fact Sheets made available electronically for the duration of FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization,” Cannellos told The Associated Press in an email. However, Lisa Cannellos, J&J’s director of global corporate media relations, explained that the section of text on the paper includes instructions to access that information online. Thousands of Twitter, TikTok and Instagram users shared the video this week, along with claims that J&J’s vaccine package was “hiding” important information from pharmacists. “A lot of safety and efficacy data - in fact all of the normal information that we would find in a package insert, like the ingredients - that would all be found right here in this package insert,” the woman says in the video. She finds a piece of paper folded on top, which she unfolds into a large sheet that is blank except for one small section of text. THE FACTS: The video shows a blonde woman in a white lab coat opening a J&J vaccine package. This is intended to ensure vaccinators and consumers refer to the most up-to-date information about the vaccine during the FDA’s emergency use authorization, the representative said. The paper insert states that it was intentionally left blank and that FDA-authorized fact sheets are available electronically, according to a J&J representative.

CLAIM: The packaging insert with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is suspiciously blank, containing no information about ingredients and side effects normally found with a vaccine.ĪP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context.

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