On Wednesday (November 3), NFL Network 's Tom Pelissero reported Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 and would miss Sunday's (November 7) game against the Kansas City Chiefs. "It was not, again, something that the league didn't know about, the league was fully aware of it upon my return to the Packers and it was at that point that I petitioned them to accept my immunization status as under their 'vaccination protocol.' "Now, at the time, they had only had the big three was what they were going to do and if you weren't in the vaccinated category, you were in a different category which involved some draconian measures and protocols that you would have to adhere to which, in my opinion, were not based on science, they were more based in a shame-based environment to try to get as many guys to get vaccinated as possible so that the league loks better to the rest of the world. It was a long-term protocol that involved multiple months and I'm very proud of the research that went into that and the individuals that I met with and we felt like it was what was best for me. "So then, my options became, 'ok, what can I do to protect myself and my teammates if there's not one of the big three options for me and my own body?' And so, I looked into and talked to a lot of medical individuals and professionals and found there was an immunization protocol that I could go to best protect myself and my teammates. And then, in mid-April, the J&J shot got pulled for clotting issues, if you remember that, right? The J&J shot was not even an option at that point. Nothing that was, no deaths or anything, but just some really difficult times and physical abnormalities around the J&J shot. "At this time, in the early spring, I had heard of multiple people who had had adverse events around getting the J&J.
"So, on the CDC's own website it said, 'should you have an allergy to any of the ingredients, you should not get one of the mRNA vaccines, so two were out already. I put a lot of time and energy into researching and met with a lot of different people in the medical field to get the most information about the vaccines before making a decision and, in actuality, it was pretty easy in the beginning to eliminate two of them and it didn't involve going into the questionable history of some of their criminal activities, some fraud cases, some of that stuff, it was simply the fact that I have an allergy to an ingredient that's in the mRNA vaccines. Much like the study I put in to hosting Jeopardy! or the weekly study I put into playing in the game. "Health is not a 'one size fits all' for everybody and for me, it involved a lot of study in the offseason. I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some 'woke culture' or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something. You guys know me, I march to the beat of my own drum.
"During that time, it was a very 'witch hunt' that was going on across the league where everyone in the media was so concerned about who was vaccinated and who wasn't and what that meant and who was being selfish and who would talk about it and what it meant if they said 'it was a personal decision, they shouldn't have to disclose their own medical information and what not' and, at the time, my plan was to say that 'I've been immunized.' "It wasn't some sort of ruse or lie, it was the truth and I'll get into the whole immunization in a second but had there been a followup to my statement that 'I've been immunized,' I would have responded with this, I would have said, 'look, I'm not some sort of anti-vax, flat-earther, I am somebody who's a critical thinker. "First of all, I didn't lie in the initial press conference," Rodgers said. Rodgers made a sporadic appearance on the Pat McAfee Show Friday (November 5) - which he is typically featured on in a weekly 'Aaron Rodgers Tuesday' segment - and discussed the situation, confirming he was "feeling good" and addressed reports that he initally claimed to be vaccinated when he actually wasn't.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers spoke publicly for the first time since testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this week.
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