Posted on 08/18/2021 2:34:34 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
The University of Washington Medical Center denied organ transplants to patients who refuse a COVID vaccine as early as June 2021. And hospital officials refuse to answer basic questions about their policy.
In fact, they won’t even directly acknowledge they have a policy.
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I asked a series of specific questions to Gregg and Lisa Brandenburg, president of UW Medicine Hospitals & Clinics.
Is there a written or unwritten policy that will deny transplants to patients based on their COVID status? Will UW Medicine provide transplant operations to unvaccinated patients? When are patients told about the vaccine requirement from their doctor — if it is not, in fact, a written policy? And has UW Medicine conducted any transplants on patients who have NOT been vaccinated? How many have been denied, placed on a status 7, or taken off waitlists for transplants?
Brandenburg did not respond to multiple emails.
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“..I think you are twisted and sick!..”
Oh, absolutely....without a doubt. I’ve become “woke” but in the opposite direction.
Thank your local democrat....LMAO.
All BS aside, I forgot my “/s” after it.
What if you identify as gender non vaxxed?
So the patient has a bad heart and they are DEMANDING a shot that has been proven to cause heart problems INSANITY!!!
This is getting more dystopian, by the hour.
Not even by the day, any longer.
This is the most important point. The same drugs necessary to reduce the risk of transplant rejection also compromise the immune system against communicable illnesses, from the flu to the common cold to CoVid.
Another reason to receive vaccines before a transplant is that immunocompromised people do not develop antibodies as readily from vaccines. Vaccines are more effective to prevent illness before the immunosuppression drugs are prescribed.
Lastly, transplant recipients should not receive live vaccines (eg nasal flu vaccine).
If he takes the jab, he may need a 2nd heart transplant.
Right. I’m taking two immunosuppressants, two antibiotics, and two anti-clotting meds, as well as a few others, and I’ve been doing good. I just wonder if I’m pressing my luck. I’ll see my Hepatologist in a few weeks and put that question to him.
Congratulations for your transplant. Very glad to hear you are doing well. 🙂
I think they simply need to ration scarce heart transplants to those who will treat their new heart well. For example:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/heart-transplant/about/pac-20384750
EXTRACT:
“…heart transplant is not right for everyone, however. You might not be a good candidate for a heart transplant if you:
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…Are unwilling or unable to make lifestyle changes necessary to keep your donor heart healthy, such as not drinking alcohol or not smoking…”
I guess they think willingness to prevent/limit COVID-19 infection by being vaccinated is such a “lifestyle change” to keep the new heart healthy.
Four years. I have an auto-immune disease that-actually, two of them which were doing a one-two punch on my liver-sarcoidosis and ulcerative colitis.
I still have both diseases, not in my liver anymore. To clarify something, the U.C. (had it diagnosed in 1994) caused primary sclerosing cholangitis while the sarcoidosis caused scar tissue to form in the main body of my liver.
THAT is cirrhosis. It was too far gone, and after running various tests, I was listed for transplant.
🙂
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