Posted on 10/13/2021 12:27:15 PM PDT by conservative98
Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that airline pilots should be far more worried about the potential health consequences of contracting COVID-19 than any risk of possible side effects from vaccines.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, made the comments during Wednesday's press briefing by the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
"We have examples of people—they may not necessarily be pilots, maybe there are some—who actually have gotten COVID and have had an unexplained but real impacting on their ability to function normally," Fauci said.
When asked about airline pilots who are worried about side effects from COVID-19 vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the possible lingering health effects of the actual virus are far more dangerous. In this photo, Fauci testifies during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington, DC.
His remarks came during a response to a question from an NPR reporter who had asked about reports of commercial airline pilots being worried about potential "career-ending side effects" from getting vaccinated. The reporter specifically noted pilots from American Airlines and Southwest Airlines who have voiced these concerns.
"Right now, on the basis of literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of vaccinations that we've had, the safety of these vaccines has been clearly established," Fauci said of the low potential of ill health coming from the shots.
He continued that it's not uncommon to get a sore arm or low-grade fever following vaccination, though those symptoms "almost invariably diminish and dissipate over a period of a couple of days," and long-term effects are "really, essentially non-existent."
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It would be a shame if Fauci couldn’t book a flight because of a pilot shortage.
Its also a brain-washing technique. Think 4 am talking points. They all use the same buzz words.
Unless they are grossly overweight or suffering some other debilitating disease (not many pilots fit this description) they have almost nothing to worry about if they get Covid.
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