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Families shown waiting last November for their turn at a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinic for children ages 5 through11 years old at Clackamas Town Center./Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB
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A NOVAVAX RESEARCHER SHOWN IN 2020/MARYLAND GOVPICS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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JÁNOS KOROM/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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Stan Thomas holds a photo of his wife, Monica Melkonian, that rests on the memorial he made to her. Melkonian is one of nine people in the U.S. confirmed to have died from vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a rare side effect associated with the Johnson & Johnson covid-19 vaccine./Tess Freeman for KHN
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Johnson & Johnson's COVID vaccine.
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KIA SLADE WAS SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT WHEN SHE WAS STRICKEN WITH A SEVERE CASE OF COVID PNEUMONIA LAST SPRING./ROSEM MORTON/KHN
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COURTESY OF OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
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Multnomah County health workers get vaccinated on Jan. 13, 2021.
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MOTOYA NAKAMURA/MULTNOMAH COUNTY