Seems like a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” kind of scenario. If you don’t pause the rollout, there will be news articles that the government ignored deadly side effects, resulting in lack of trust and vaccine hesitancy. If you do pause the rollout, you get vaccine hesitancy.

Agreed that if everyone is rational/good at math the optimal outcome is proceed with dosing, but sadly that is not the world we live in and the “broken trust” scenario might be more damaging.