After the U.S. administered nearly 7 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the CDC and FDA this morning issued a recommendation to pause using that particular vaccine after six women developed blood clots following their vaccinations.
Axios Re:Cap digs into how this recommendation was likely made, why and how to understand it with Julie Morita, executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who has served on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as commissioner for the Chicago Department of Public Health, and on the Biden COVID-19 advisory board.
Yesterday, police said the officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, outside Minneapolis Sunday appeared to have accidentally pulled out her gun instead of a Taser.
Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop about 10 miles from where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year.
Plus, tensions between Israel and Iran put pressure on the US.
And, how one failed union vote against Amazon will shape big tech companies.
The U.S. secured so many COVID-19 vaccine doses through its Operation Warp Speed contracts that we may soon be sitting on a surplus, even if booster shots are needed.
Axios Re:Cap is joined by Vanity Fair contributing editor Katherine Eban to discuss her recent reporting, which revealed how those contracts were structured and how the U.S. ended up with a stockpile it cannot distribute abroad.
The Biden administration reported a record number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in March — the highest in 15 years. 172,000 people have been apprehended at the border, 19,000 of those unaccompanied children and teenagers.
Axios’ Stef Kight and Russell Contreras spent the last week at the border and saw this surge firsthand.
Plus, the housing boom no one’s happy about.
And, CEOs put political pressure on lawmakers over voting rights.
