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CDC reviews Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, the number of cases in India has reached a record and the US is expanding its Do Not Travel list. Here’s what you should know:

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The CDC advisory committee meets to determine the future of the Johnson & Johnson shot

Today, the CDC’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee is meeting to discuss Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, and it is hoped that a restart will be recommended its use. Shot the expansion has been paused to investigate low number of dangerous blood clotting incidents. Although rare, doctors were serious and in some cases deadly. Assuming the shot will be used again soon, doctors are carefully thinking about how to discuss it collective gain and personal risk. In the words of one doctor, “We want the benefits of society at the end of the day, but we should not avoid aspects of what it means to each patient.”

In the EU, the health regulator announced earlier this week that the region would resume action Johnson & Johnson expansion, because the benefits of the shot outweigh the risk of rare blood clots. There, the pharmacist will add a new label warning about the risk of clots and steps to recognize and treat them.

India is setting pandemic records as other countries are also creating outbreaks

On Friday, there were 332,730 new Covid-19 infections every day in India – worldwide the largest one-day hike in cases. The Indian pandemic has intensified over the course of the week as the situation worsens. Hospital beds are being filled, and some states and cities have imposed blockades in the absence of national orders. In addition, there have been two fatal crashes this week in overcrowded hospitals: An oxygen discharge He killed 22 sick Covid, and a fire he killed at least 14 of them.

Other countries are also struggling to withstand the crisis. Brazil, millions are starving because the country has a record high. And this week Japan a third state of emergency for several regions, including Tokyo, where cases are completed a few months before the Olympics.

The U.S. is providing new travel tips as other countries create plans to open borders

Earlier this week, the U.S. State Department issued a much larger deployment Don’t travel the list. The list, which was only 33 countries earlier in the week, now lists more than 115 countries and territories that Americans should avoid traveling to, including Brazil, Russia, India and large parts of Europe.

As the vaccine progresses in some parts of the world, other countries are also defining new plans for foreign travel. China, which once only allowed access to people who received Chinese vaccines, recently announced that it will allow the submission of U.S. vaccine records coronavirus QR “health code”. And Israel and Bahrain arrived the first agreement of its kind recognition of vaccine passports from anywhere and travel without quarantine between the two countries.

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