Las Vegas woman who had blood clots after J&J shot returns home

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A Las Vegas teenager who underwent three brain surgeries from blood clots after getting the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has only just returned home and is still unable to walk after three months in the hospital. 

Emma Burkey, 18, was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital after she started suffering seizures following the one-dose COVID shot back on April 1. 

Burkey suffered what has since been described as a one in a million reaction to the J&J shot after developing blood clots.  

The teenager ended up being airlifted to a hospital in California where she was placed in a medically induced coma, intubated and underwent three operations to repair the clots in her brain.  

Three months on, Burkey is still unable to walk and her family are now preparing to sell their home given it is not wheelchair-accessible.