They ask people to honk or flash their lights if they don't feel well. 'And we have a team of people who are standing there and observing.
And she says there is a monitoring system, where people are given color-coded cards based on their risk for side effects that they place on their car windshields after they get the shot. When asked about concerns about side effects from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine that have prompted three other states to temporarily shut down clinics, Lambrew said she's confident the vaccine is safe and effective. The governor and myself are working with the federal government to make sure in the next two weeks we have sufficient doses,' she says. 'We are worried that we may not have enough for this mobile clinic and other sites. Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew says the state does not get a special allotment for the mobile unit. That's despite a substantial reduction in the J&J vaccine supply the state received this week and likely next week. The unit is equipped to administer any vaccine, but is currently using the one shot Johnson & Johnson. But today, we are, in the state of Connecticut, providing 400-plus vaccinations, which is almost double what we hoped to do,' he says. 'That was the initial target when we first put them out.
