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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended the expiration date for Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses, and that’s good news for Columbus.

There are 200,000 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Ohio that will expire later this month. Gov. Mike DeWine has issued an urgent communication to vaccine providers to ask them to distribute as many doses as possible as quickly as possible.

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The COVID-19 case rate in Ohio has dropped to the lowest it's been in a year. Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) used the decreasing case numbers to call on people to get their vaccinations.

The federal government says it will not ship any of the manufacturer's vaccines then, and Gov. Mike DeWine tells President Joe Biden that the vaccine has been popular in Ohio.

Summit County will start administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine again on Saturday, May 1, 2021, now that the pause on its use has been lifted. Vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson were temporarily paused earlier this month while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration studied the possibility of blood clots as a side effect. The FDA concluded on April 23 that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh its risks and approved it for emergency use.

Ohio is following federal guidance and resuming use of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine; a spokeswoman for Summit County Public Health says they have at least a couple thousand doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine ready to go; new cases of COVID-19 have been on a downward trend over the past few days and on Sunday the state health department reported under a thousand new cases for the first time in the last three weeks; and more stories.

County officials say the vaccination effort will continue despite the switch in shots.