Safety
FAA Prepared To Move Quickly on Covid Vaccines
Pilots are concerned that Covid vaccines would effect medical status, but the FAA said it would evaluate use as soon as the vaccines gain authorization.

The FAA is watching the deliberations of the first rounds of possibly available Covid-19 vaccines and plans to evaluate potential pilot use as soon as they gain emergency authorization, the agency said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is set to meet on December 10 to discuss the request for emergency use authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech Manufacturing and has scheduled a similar meeting on December 17 to review a similar request from Moderna.