Fauci on Pausing J&J Vaccine: 'A Confirmation of How Seriously We Take Safety'

As some may have vaccine hesitancy as a result of the reported issues, Fauci said the halt could be “quite temporary” and stressed the FDA and CDC just want to gather more information on the vaccines.

Very well may be quite temporary, but they just want to take a look and see if they can gather more information or even see if there are more cases that have gone unnoticed.”.

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’ll go back, maybe make some modifications.