Dr. Michelle Fiscus told WTVF that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delayed the rollout of the life-saving Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of his religious views that the vaccine somehow contained fetal tissue from abortion:
It’s refrigerated, they didn’t have to reconstitute it. It didn’t have to be stored under ultra-cold refrigeration with dry ice. It had a long refrigerator life. There were a lot of advantages. The governor forbade us from using it in health departments... I had a problem with that being imposed upon 6.8 million Tennesseans.
The governor’s office denied that Lee’s personal views ever affected the J&J vaccine’s delivery, even though only 3,800 J&J vaccines have bene used and the state is somehow out of stock.
Two other health department insiders independently confirmed Fiscus’ account.
(Source: WTVF)