Authored by Janice Hisle by way of The Epoch Occasions (emphasis ours),

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is expressing dismay over how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) responded to his questions in regards to the company’s dealing with of pilot well being points.

“How can the FAA keep secure skies when it turns a blind eye towards pilots experiencing COVID-19 vaccine accidents?” Johnson mentioned in an electronic mail despatched solely to The Epoch Occasions on Feb. 21.

“Is it willful ignorance that the FAA is conscious of solely 4 energetic pilots experiencing adversarial occasions related to the COVID-19 vaccine? The American individuals are not getting the total transparency and honesty from federal businesses that they deserve.”

Johnson made these remarks in response to how Susan Northrup, the FAA’s federal air surgeon, answered eight questions surrounding pilot well being.

Not the FAA’s Function

In his Jan. 27 letter to the FAA, Johnson supplied particular details about 5 named pilots with suspected COVID-19 vaccine ailing results; one of many pilots died 17 days after being vaccinated.

Quite a few different accounts of pilots with suspected vaccine accidents are included within the Vaccine Hostile Occasion Reporting System, as The Epoch Occasions reported beforehand.

Johnson needed to know what steps the FAA has taken or deliberate to take to analyze whether or not the 5 named pilots and others had suffered adversarial results after COVID-19 pictures.

Northrup wrote that her company isn’t in control of that.

“The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) is the accountable company for monitoring and observe up of suspected vaccine adversarial occasions,” she wrote.

Northrup famous that pilots experiencing any medical points are required to “floor themselves,” search medical assist and report any “vital medical occasions.”

“FAA is accountable for figuring out whether or not that occasion could have an adversarial security impact,” Northrup wrote.

She additionally mentioned the company was “conscious of solely 4 probably vaccine-related adversarial occasions in energetic pilots.”

Amongst these 4, “just one has supplied medical documentation by means of the traditional course of,” Northrup wrote. She gave no additional info on what that course of includes.

Justification For Pictures

Johnson famous that, on Dec. 12, 2020, the day after the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration approved COVID-19 vaccines for “emergency use” among the many normal public, the FAA declared pilots had been permitted to take the pictures, too.

That motion stunned many in aviation as a result of pilots are forbidden from taking different emergency-use-authorized medication.

To justify the medication’ use in pilots, Northrup listed 9 web sites in regards to the normal security of the varied manufacturers of vaccines. Aviation consultants have questioned whether or not any research had been performed on pilots particularly. There have been no such research instantly obvious among the many record Northrup supplied.

Requested whether or not the FAA evaluated whether or not any modifications must be made to steering on COVID-19 vaccines for pilots, Northrup responded that the company has “continued to observe the info and decided no change in coverage was indicated.”

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