Bowling Green State University will offer the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to students, faculty, and staff at a clinic Thursday. from 2:30-5 p.m. on campus inside the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Multi-Purpose Room 228.
The administration of the vaccine had been paused because of concerns about a few cases of blood clotting. The federal government late last week gave the go-ahead to resume giving the vaccine. Because it is single dose, it eases the concern about how a student leaving campus would get the second doses required for those who have gotten the first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
Those students can, BGSU Chief Health Officer Ben Batey said, get that second dose elsewhere, including at the Wood County Health Department.
In the most recent weekly update , for the days leading up to graduations this weekend, BGSU reported seven new cases between April 19-25. Of those five were students, all of whom live off campus, and two were staff. Onlyone student is quarantined in campus housing.
Since the beginning of the semester, BGSU has reported 492 cases – 426 students, 56 staff, and 10 faculty. In that time, the university has conducted 460 tests of symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals and found one positive case, a 0.2 percent positivity rate. The state positivity rate is 4.5 percent.
Since the beginning of the year, the university has conducted 17,868 tests on symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, detecting 488 positives, a 2.7 percent positivity rate.
