Dr. Fauci on J&J Vaccine Pausing: This Is a Confirmation of How Seriously We Take Safety

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FAUCI: “You bring up a good point. But there’s an other side to that story. Because much of the hesitancy that we encounter are people who wonder about the safety of a particular vaccine. I mean, I know I’m out there talking to people all the time. This, in fact, is a confirmation of how seriously we take safety. So rather than turning people off about it, if you pause it for a little while and said, you know, we’re very concerned to make sure that what we put in your arm is safe, we wanted to take a few days, take a look at this, get more details about it and then very likely, I don’t want to get ahead of the FDA, but very likely they’ll say we looked at it and now we will go back, maybe make some modifications. So to me, it’s an argument for why you should get vaccinated, because the system is working. The system that is trying to protect the American people is working, which is what triggered the FDA and the CDC to do that.”