CDC advisers to discuss additional doses of coronavirus for vulnerable patients

It is also expected that the panel will hear additional information on a FDA warning published on July 12 regarding a serious but rare autoimmune disease that has been linked to the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. About 100 preliminary cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, in which the immune system attacks the nerves, have been detected in vaccinated subjects after the administration of 12.8 million shots in the United States, according to the CDC, which oversees vaccine safety systems with the FDA. Of those cases, 95 were serious and required hospitalization, and there was one death, according to the FDA.