The FDA basically hung up on a doctor treating one of the first victims of blood clotting from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Brian Lipman recognized right away that it was no normal clot on the brain that an 18-year-old Clarke County woman was suffering after she got the vaccine. He immediately sought help from numerous agencies including the CDC, FDA and Johnson & Johnson, but nobody wanted to step up to the plate to help, he said.
Instead, an FDA spokeswoman sent an email saying they would “look into this further.” Meanwhile, the CDC waited more than a week to return Lipman’s calls. “We tried calling the FDA,” Lipman told the newspaper. “They basically hung up on me. We tried to call Johnson and Johnson, or Janssen, who made the vaccine. But we basically got no help from anyone.”
The doctor insisted he’s not “anti-vaccine.” Rather, he said he hopes “’there’ll be some response on the government’s part in terms of who should be getting this vaccine and who should not be getting the vaccine’ while also making more physicians aware of the condition and how to treat it.”
SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal April 20, 2021