“It’s generally recommended that you get the booster that is the original regimen that you got in the first place,” Fauci said. He conceded that mixing different types of vaccines was allowable but reiterated that brand loyalty was best.
About two hours after that interview aired, the White House pandemic response team held a briefing for the press. A reporter asked Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the same question about mixing vaccines. “We will not articulate a preference,” Walensky said, seeming to contradict what Fauci had just said on CNN.
He had, in fact, added that there was no danger in mixing vaccine types, but a casual observer might have been led to believe that the federal government didn’t know its own plan. “I’ve been a nurse for 40 years and I am confused,” Donna Gallipeau wrote that day on Twitter, describing how she had gone into a Publix supermarket for a booster, only to be turned away.
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