Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a temporary pause of J&J after six women developed rare, but serious, blood clots out of 7.2 million vaccinations.
All developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - a rare type of blood clot that blocks the brain's sinus channels of draining blood - along with low blood platelet counts, known as thrombocytopenia. 'We did a CT scan that showed a clot in the brain and a clot in the lungs,' Dr Todd Clark, assistant medical director at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, told ABC 7 DenverIt came after European researchers found that the coronavirus vaccine from AztraZeneca-the University of Oxford, also linked to blood clots, causes the body to attack its own blood platelets, triggering deadly clots in the brain.  The medication worked to break up the blood clot (left side) Wolfe was discharged from the hospital six days later