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 in the United States on Tuesday, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced they were investigating reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots.

The clots were found in six women between the ages of 18 and 48. More than 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine have already been administered in the United States, the vast majority with no or mild side effects.

About Minnesota's J&J COVID vaccine pause

Some doctors are concerned that the pause will make people who were already hesitant to get vaccinated even more reluctant. 

 even wonder if the CDC was exercising too much caution. COVID-19 cases are on the rise in many states, including Minnesota — a fact largely attributed to the more transmissible variants.

Will the end of the pandemic depend more on psychology than pharmaceuticals? Wednesday,  MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with a doctor and a behaviorist about the race between the vaccines and the variants. 

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