From the we're-all-losers department...
https://substack.com/inbox/post/98680505"Is myocarditis being ruled out from pilots before they fly? Has this been made a mandatory assessment by FAA and airlines post the COVID vaccine given the deaths we have seen? I think it should, in fact, it must!
'However, in many cases, a PR interval longer than 200 ms "is clearly associated with arrhythmias in the future, pacemakers, and early death," Levy said, citing a respected Harvard study. He said those risks elevate with PR readings even slightly above 200 ms, not even close to the new 300 ms limit that the FAA has set.'
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A researcher for an aviation advocacy group, US Freedom Flyers (USFF), stumbled upon the EKG change in December, several weeks after the FAA enacted it.Because the revision was made without a published explanation, USFF turned to a nationally known cardiologist and other experts to assess its importance.They say the FAA's change involving "the PR interval" is significant. The PR interval represents the time it takes for an electrical impulse to travel from one part of the heart to another. It is an indicator of heart health.But "the new normal" PR interval that the FAA set for pilots is 50 percent longer than the previous limit; it deviates from a long-accepted limit in cardiology.Critics fear that expanding the limit could endanger pilots' health and passengers' safety.
This worry is especially acute amid rising reports of cardiac arrest and sudden death since the COVID pandemic began in 2020. Some researchers suggest that some heart conditions
could be tied to aftereffects of COVID-19 injections or the virus. Because pilots were threatened with job termination, a large percentage of them took the COVID jabs.'
'A PR interval longer than 200 milliseconds (ms) is considered a red flag, said Florida-based Levy. Such a reading, by itself, doesn't prove there is a heart problem.
Yet a reading above 200 ms does warrant further testing and "shouldn't be ignored," Levy said. That has been a given in cardiology for almost as long as EKGs have been used, Levy said.
That's why, in Levy's view, it makes no sense for the FAA to broaden the range significantly. Pilots with PR intervals longer than 200 ms used to require further evaluation. Now that happens when the pilots' PR readings go beyond 300 ms.
