NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Rodgers says in a soon-to-be printed ebook that he ought to have dealt with discussing his COVID-19 immunization standing otherwise.
The New York Jets quarterback was nonetheless with the Inexperienced Bay Packers in 2021 when he instructed reporters he was “immunized” in opposition to the virus — after which examined constructive for COVID-19 three months later and needed to be sidelined for 10 days.
Rodgers unsuccessfully appealed to the league that his homeopathic remedy routine ought to qualify him as vaccinated. The four-time NFL MVP was broadly criticized for not being truthful about his standing.
“If there’s one factor I want may have gone totally different, it’s that, as a result of that’s the one factor (critics) may hit me with,” ESPN reported Rodgers told author Ian O’Connor for the biography, “Out Of The Darkness: The Thriller of Aaron Rodgers,” which matches on sale subsequent week.
ESPN stated Rodgers says within the ebook his essential motive for claiming he was “immunized” was the assertion represented “the crux of my enchantment.”
Rodgers stated on the time he was allergic to an ingredient within the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines — polyethylene glycol — and was involved about potential antagonistic reactions to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
“But when I may do it once more, I might have stated, (overlook) the enchantment. I’m simply going to inform them I’m allergic to PEG,” Rodgers says within the ebook. “I’m not getting Johnson & Johnson. I’m not going to be vaxxed.”
The ebook, primarily based on interviews with 250 folks, together with Rodgers, additionally delves into different points of the quarterback’s life, together with his restoration from a torn Achilles tendon after 4 snaps in his debut with the Jets final 12 months, his lengthy estrangement from his household, his introduction to utilizing ayahuasca and particulars of his soccer enjoying profession by faculty at Cal, his draft-day plunge within the first spherical in 2005 and his 18 seasons with the Packers.
