This is an excerpt from a report made to the Aviation Safety Reporting System. The narrative is written by the pilot, rather than FAA or NTSB officials. To maintain anonymity, many details, such as aircraft model or airport, are often scrubbed from the reports.
I received the second dose of vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID). The vaccine is highly safe and effective, but clinical data show that many people have minor side effects like fatigue, muscle pains, headache, and flu-like symptoms. The FAA requires a 48-hour waiting period after administration of this vaccine for that reason.
I had not reviewed the FAA circular.
I concluded that it would take longer than the flight I had planned for any potential side effects to develop, so I launched on a four-hour flight. Towards the end of this flight, I made an unscheduled fuel stop and started to develop a mild headache.
Recognizing that these might be symptoms related to the vaccination, I grounded myself.
Later that evening, I developed symptoms that were severe enough that they would have presented a safety issue, had I been operating an airplane.
I neglected to review the FAA circular in advance of this flight. A 48-hour delay after the vaccination would have prevented the possibility of experiencing symptoms that could present a danger during flight.
Primary Problem: Human Factors
For the safety of the traveling public every pilot that has been vaccinated should be grounded until a transparent report as to both near and long term vaccine side effects has been submitted to and reviewed by a public body not beholden to vested interests.
Until that day the flying public will be at substantive risk due to catastrophic outcomes en route resulting from potential health issues by way of the vaccinated who continue to maintain their flight privileges.
Why would anyone let themselves be injected with anything that’s not proven safe. I don’t care if ya took the jab or not, everyone with common sence has to queestion WHY is there such a push to get it? WHY a ‘win money’ lottery for those who get jabbed? WHY the honoree of a parade be for a person that’s going to get jabbed? Why would they possibly jab children near 0 death rate? WHY would you lose your job because you didn’t want the jab for a virus that you have a 99.7% of surviving. MASKS DO ‘NOTHING’ FOR A VIRUS THAT TAKES A COMPLETE 100% AIR SUITE to avoid. No,,, they don’t help!!!! Half you people out there have turned into government belief sheep. Some people even get the shot ‘after’ having the virus. WOW U.S. people,,, the biggest threat of all——– CCEENNSSOORRIINNGG OF PEOPLES VIEWS. HOW ARE WE ””’ALL AMERICANS””” LETTING THIS HAPPEN…..
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Go to page 384 of the Guide to Medical Examiners. Since Comirnaty is the only FDA approved Covid vaccine (according to documents at the FDA website), it seems to me every pilot that took a covid shot has an invalid medical. FDA also took pains to explain pfizer and Comirnaty are “Legally distinct”. No mention of EUA on page 384. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/ame/guide/media/guide.pdf
I don’t know that 48 hours is enough time. My wife got medium sick about 4 days after her second. I have not taken any vaccine as I think the well-established research on the NIH site supports that 4,000 IU Vitamin D is better and safer for Covid and many other health issues whether you’re vaccinated or not. I do not isolate, mask, or social distance unless required by a sign. No problems at all despite multiple Covid exposures over the last 17 months. You were wise to sit it out.
From the August 17, 2021 NIH Covid 19 Guidelines:
Vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.
From the NIH webpage about Vitamin D:
There is insufficient evidence to recommend either for or against the use of vitamin D for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.
anything that does not make pharma, CDC or FDA money, is not going to be studied one way or another
So you favor taking your reccomendations from the maker of the vaccine. Hmmmm not critical thinking.
The NIH is not the maker of the vaccine. Critical thinking requires knowing the actual facts.
Too many adverse reactions for me ..
The “facts” aren’t only those presented by the NIH or CDC- both heavily paid off by big pharma. Do some critical thinking; in regard to the vaccine, you will have to do more work in order to do due diligence. Any one who speaks against the narrative is censored on most social media platforms And without question on the main stream media.
I wonder what type aircraft (pressurized or unpressurized) and at what altitude(s) the flight was flown.
Four hours of flight at reduced atmospheric pressure could have induced and/or aggravated the symptoms.
Any feedback from an aeromed physician would be interesting and helpful.
Oh great then if I don’t have a reaction and feel miserable then it didn’t work?
95% effectiveness whether you had post jab symptoms or not
I personally know 6 people who have had side effects from all of the vaccines. From being temporarily paralyzed, severe headaches, joint pain to Bright Red patches on their cheeks. Not to mention fever. More and more evidence is coming out about the side effects of the vaccine, (from real doctors), and none of it is good! We’ll see what happens to all of the vaccinated in 2 to 3 years starting this fall.
I personally know 6 people who got the vaccines and had no side effects whatsoever. But a sample size of 6 is scientifically meaningless.
Dr. Melanie Swift, co-chair of Mayo Clinic’s COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution Work Group, says all vaccines could cause some degree of reaction. The same is true with the COVID-19 vaccines.
“They do provoke an immune reaction, which can cause symptoms,” says Dr. Swift. “That shouldn’t be confused with being harmful or being unsafe. It’s what the vaccine is intended to do.”
Talking about serious adverse reactions, when you’re the one nothing else matters. And there is no aid for COVID-19 vaccine, should you experience a serious adverse lasting injury, unlike other vaccines.
No federal financial aid
Worse yet the makers of it have made sure they will not be held accountable that speaks for itself. If they new it was safe they would have no problem being liable. They know its not safe and thats a fact proven by their actions. Logic prevails at all times.
Totally agree..that in itself is a silent admission of guilt
Covid can have some pretty long-lasting effects as well, including death. I remember when seat belts were first introduced in cars there were people who said you should never use them because they could trap you in a wreck. And that’s true, but statistically it’s far more likely they will save your life in a wreck. There is perceived risk, and then there is real risk. Science is the tool to determine the difference.
You are correct. All the anecdotal “I know someone”fearmongering, antiscience, conspiracist, and politicization of Covid/vaccination have Petri dish rapidly grown irrationality. All of a sudden half of Americans appear to have miraculously been imbued with medical knowledge greater than infectious disease experts.
Would pilots trust their hairdressers for their A&P work? Not a far fetched analogy.
Please, science is based on multiple medical and scientific opinion and then proving theory and having it peer reviewed, NONE of that is being done in government or our public health
Yes but totally not relatable, because you didnt have to put the seatbelt into your body… Not a good example at all. If you had to injest the seatbelt that would have been a completely different matter.
“And none of it is good”…ya mean compared to morbidity/mortality from Covid??
No excuse. Pilots are required by reg to know all available information before each flight and especially to be medically ready to fly (no drugs, no fatigue, no bad attitude). Information on the 2nd shot was WELL KNOWN and anyone taking it was ADVISED about the extra level of reaction and the fact it would take 48 hours for the shot to settle down. The reaction was due to the immue system attenuation after the first shot and anyone NOT reacting was considered to not have the immune levels necessary to resist the virus.
Aren’t you a ray of regulation sunshine. Are you on the FAA payroll? Do you cancel a flight because the destination airport ASOS system is down? Hopefully common sense plays into this at some point. That’s why they invented alternate airports and the most marvelous manuver ever created, the 180° turn!
(For some people common sense is a superpower).
Are you assuming the alternative airports arent having the same problem that becomes chronically exponential as time passes and 2nd and 3rd jabs ensue. This is going to get worse not better this is just the kick off we see now.
That 180deg turn is proven to be Godly in the spiritual world too. It is easier with our Savior as the pilot and each copilot listening urgently.