Pop-up mass vaccination clinic in Colorado is shut down after 11 people suffer adverse reactions to Johnson & Johnson shot and two are hospitalized
A pop-up mass vaccination clinic in Colorado was shut down after 11 people suffered adverse reactions to Johnson & Johnson shots administered there.
More than 600 people's appointments at a 'Vaccines for All' event at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City were cancelled on Wednesday when the clinic was forced to close at around 3.30pm.
Centura Health, which sponsored the event, said 11 people had adverse reactions such as nausea and dizziness in the on-site observation area minutes after receiving their Johnson & Johnson shot.
Two of those people were transported to a hospital for additional monitoring, while the nine others were treated with water and juice.
A 'Vaccines for All' event at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, was shut down on Wednsday after 11 people suffered adverse reactions to Johnson & Johnson vaccines
Centura said the reactions accounted for less than one percent of the more than 1,700 people vaccinated at the event.
'We followed our protocols and in an abundance of caution, made the decision — in partnership with the state — to pause operations for the remainder of the day,' the company said.
Centura spokesman Kevin Massey said 640 people who were unable to receive a vaccine on Wednesday due to the closure would have their appointments rescheduled for another mass vaccination event on Sunday.
Dick's Sporting Goods Park is home to the Colorado Rapids men's professional soccer team and has capacity for up to 27,000 people.
Centura Health sponsored the 'Vaccines for All' event at Dick's Sporting Goods Park (pictured)
The federal government has been tracking people's reactions to COVID-19 shot reactions in a database called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
According to that database just .005 percent of people have experienced a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine - and even fewer experienced it directly after getting the shot.
Vaccination clinics require people to stay in an observation area for 15 minutes after receiving a shot to monitor for reactions.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 33 percent of the US population has received at least one dose and 19.4 percent are fully immunized, either from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson.
All told more than 171.4 million vaccines have been administered in the US to date, out of more than 225.29 delivered to states.
Experts say adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines are extremely rare (file photo)
