Aaron Rodgers Reflects a Year Later on How He Misled the Press About His Vaccination Status

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During the press conference last year, a reporter asked, “Are you vaccinated and what’s your stance on vaccinations?” Rodgers replied, “Yeah, I’m immunized.”Rodgers said he had sought out alternative ways to combat the virus, and found through his own research a holistic doctor’s method of “inoculation” that included ingesting a “diluted strands” of the virus orally.

When Rogan pressed him on what that was, Rogers declined to elaborate.Rogers also said he initially considered getting the vaccine, but “I went on the CDC website and it specifically said ‘if you’re allergic to PEG, we do not recommend getting vaccinated with the MRNA vaccines.” PEG is polyethylene glycol, to which Rogers says he has an allergy.Rodgers told Rogan he suspected he would have to clarify things if he got COVID, or “if word got out.”“But I knew at some point, if I contracted COVID or if word got out, because it’s the NFL and there’s leaks everywhere, it was possible to have to answer the questions.

And then sure enough, I contract COVID in the beginning of November, end of October, and that’s when the sh-tstorm hit because now I’m a liar.

I’m, you know, endangering the community, my teammates, all these people. And, you know, the attempted takedown of me and my word and my integrity began,” Rodgers said. “So that was  difficult.”Rodgers was slammed last fall by a number of public figures for not being fully honest about his vaccination status.“It would have been nice if he had just come to the Naval Academy and learned how to be honest,” Terry Bradshaw said on “Fox NFL Sunday” last November. “Learn not to lie, because that’s what you did, Aaron.