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VACCINE MIX-UP

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Days into the #VaccineRollout, the UK opened up the door to mixing and matching #Covid19 vaccines depending on availability, despite serious skepticism from scientists, including the FDA and the WHO. Then weeks later, Fauci and the CDC eased their #Vaccine rules when it comes to mixing the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Is this a new era of “science”?

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0:00.0

New York Times is talking about Britain and what they were doing.

0:04.6

And in the UK, they talked about mixing and matching.

0:08.1

So Britain opens door to mix and match vaccination, worrying experts.

0:13.0

Now at that time, the narrative says in this article, some scientists say Britain is gambling

0:18.7

with its new guidance.

0:20.6

Quote, there are no data on this idea whatsoever said John Moore, a vaccine expert at Cornell

0:26.0

University.

0:27.0

Officials in Britain, quote, seem to have abandoned science completely now and are just

0:31.3

trying to guess their way out of a mess.

0:33.8

At that time, you know, that was January 1st.

0:35.9

We reported on that too, right?

0:37.3

I mean, we were talking about that.

0:38.6

We brought this story out.

0:39.6

It's a crazy idea that you can just take two foreign products to each other and say,

0:43.8

yeah, if we're out of the one, just go grab the other one, all right?

0:47.2

Continue.

0:48.2

Absolutely.

0:49.2

And that was not tested.

0:50.6

So Pfizer-Moderna did not test that in their emergency use authorization data.

0:55.1

So when Britain and the UK did that, FDA came out and warned against it just four days

1:01.1

later because it was grabbing international headlines.

1:03.4

So when the FDA came out, it warned against the plan and said it was going to be a significant

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