"I think right now the message should be: take the life jacket that you're offered"

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen has said it would be “inexplicable” for leaders to refuse shipments of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan suggested it was inferior to the Pfizer and Moderna versions…

“It’s wrong,” Wen said, when asked about the mayor’s initial remark. “I mean, there are residents in his city who are being offered a life jacket and he’s saying, I’m not gonna take these life jackets because I don’t like the color. I mean, that’s essentially what’s happening because these are all safe and highly effective vaccines.

“I think right now the message should be: take the life jacket that you’re offered. If we find out later that another life jacket is even better, take that life jacket then. But why do you let people drown in the meantime?