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REDFIELD: "The problem is not the science of creating the vaccine. The problem was the public policy and how to use the vaccine.
The vaccine should have never been mandated. It was never meant to prevent transmission. It didn’t prevent transmission. Probably was a misnomer to call it a vaccine. It’s really more like a medicine. It doesn’t stop infection. Children should have never been vaccinated. People shouldn’t have been mandated to be vaccinated to go to school and work. So the police side was totally misplayed. Okay? And I I know I’ve — the vaccine came out 14th of December, and I was out of office on January 20th, so unfortunately I had very little influence on the policy. But I did argue that it should be a vaccine that we should use for the vulnerable, put it in the nursing homes. Put it in assisted living, don’t mandate this vaccine, didn’t belong in children. So a lot of overreach. And as a consequence, the mRNA was a new technology, it hadn't — you know, we don’t know all those potential negative consequences. I'll say this briefly, because I see the timer: When I give you an mRNA vaccine, and I’ve talked to the FDA and others about this, when I give you an mRNA vaccine, I don’t know how much spike protein you make. I turn you into a spike protein factory. I think the FDA should know how much protein you make. And I don’t know how long you make it. I think we ought to know how long you make it. And I don’t know the volume and distribution of it in your body. I think we should have known all of those things."