Catholic bishops could complicate vaccine distribution

Catholic bishops may have just made the tricky COVID-19 vaccine rollout more complicated. They’re raising concerns about the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine and its connections to cloned cells linked to abortions in the 1980s. Their statement could push believers to reject the new vaccine.

If states don’t respond carefully to this concern and other concerns regarding the vaccine’s efficacy, the result could be a vaccine scheduling nightmare. Patients could get frustrated and vaccine doses wasted, explain Tinglong Dai of Johns Hopkins University, Christopher Tang of UCLA and Ho-Yin Mak of Oxford University – experts specializing in health care operations, data analytics and supply chain management.

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