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Italian anti-vax parents lose appeal over unvaccinated blood donor request for child’s heart surgery
MSN ^ | 2/8 | Sofia Barbarani

Posted on 02/08/2022 11:48:38 AM PST by nickcarraway

A judge in Italy has ruled against the parents of a two-year-old boy in urgent need of heart surgery after they demanded that doctors only use blood transfusions from unvaccinated donors.

The medical saga kicked off in northern Italy two weeks ago, when the father of the child – who has heart disease – asked Bologna’s Sant’Orsola hospital not to use blood donated by people who had been vaccinated against Covid, causing the surgery to be delayed.

The man took to anti-vax Telegram channels in search of volunteers. “Urgent. Unvaccinated blood needed for a delicate surgery,” he wrote, under the pseudonym Paolo, according to Italian paper La Gazzetta di Modena. When doctors told the parents that the request – which was reportedly made for religious reasons – did not adhere to the hospital’s criteria for blood donations, the couple turned to lawyers and launched legal action.

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KEYWORDS: italy; medicine; unvaccinated

1 posted on 02/08/2022 11:48:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Totally disgusting and wrong on so many levels.


2 posted on 02/08/2022 11:51:37 AM PST by laplata (")
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To: nickcarraway

What would I do if this were my child?


3 posted on 02/08/2022 11:53:59 AM PST by hoe_cake
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I have a suspicion that unvaxxed blood will be in greater and greater demand as the years go by.


4 posted on 02/08/2022 11:54:22 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t the parents give the child their own blood?


5 posted on 02/08/2022 11:54:59 AM PST by nickcarraway
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