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54-year-old Ohio veteran denied heart transplant over refusal to take the COVID vaccine
UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/16/2025 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 02/17/2025 6:16:52 AM PST by DFG

An Ohio veteran has claimed he was denied a heart transplant because he refused to take a COVID vaccine.

Ken Long, 54, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure nearly a year ago, after he became ill on a family vacation to Texas, his wife, Christina, told Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom.

He was eventually sent to The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati for a heart transplant and was set to receive 'the next heart that came in so long as his body was otherwise healthy,' she said.

When the tests came back showing 'he was in perfect health other than a very sick heart,' it became to sign consent forms, and hospital staff told the family he would have to get a COVID vaccine.

But Ken immediately refused to take the jab.

'When I decide something, I mean it and if it takes dying, it's what it is,' he told WRKC.

'They don't know enough about it and plus it's already done a lot of damage - people have said blood clots. There are known cardiac issues an d our personal religious rights.'

Initially, Christina said she disagreed with her husband's decision.

'To be told he was so sick and possibly not going to live and that they were not going to give him a transplant due to his personal choice and religious beliefs, based on a vaccine, it was just absolutely mind-blowing,' Christina told the advocacy group.

'So then you go into fight-or-flight mode,' she said. 'I mean you're a mess, you're turned upside down, nothing makes sense, you don't trust anybody, you're afraid to say what you feel or think because you're going to be judged for it.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bigpharmadoug; covid; dugwaydork; surgery; veteran
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1 posted on 02/17/2025 6:16:52 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

H3 should sue them for endangering his life by requiring that he take a drug that is known to hurt people before he can get life saving care!


2 posted on 02/17/2025 6:26:44 AM PST by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: DFG

A very close friend in ohio being denied heart from osu also for refusal to get the jab


3 posted on 02/17/2025 6:27:14 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: Bob434

265+ million Americans have received at least 2 have. But America is still functioning and millions voted for Trump who was the force behind warp speed development of experimental covid vax.


4 posted on 02/17/2025 6:30:45 AM PST by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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To: DFG
To: The Christ Hospital
From: MAGA

That's some nice federal funding you got there - it'd be a shame to lose it.

5 posted on 02/17/2025 6:31:21 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Bobbyvotes

2 jabs.


6 posted on 02/17/2025 6:35:06 AM PST by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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To: grobdriver

Bobby is in the room now to take on the Medical Industrial Complex and hopefully any Chamber of Commerce RINO’s in HHS trying to protect it will not have the final say.


7 posted on 02/17/2025 6:36:41 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Bobbyvotes

265+ million Americans have received at least 2 jabs.

yeah i see if johnny jumps off a cliff everyone else needs to also...no option

ivermectin was bad now its good...


8 posted on 02/17/2025 6:38:18 AM PST by rolling_stone
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To: DFG

Sounds like the sitch with Vance’s young relative.

Despicable.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 6:41:12 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Bobbyvotes

Your point?


10 posted on 02/17/2025 6:41:41 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Bob434

Bob434 wrote: “H3 should sue them for endangering his life by requiring that he take a drug that is known to hurt people before he can get life saving care!”

Can you name a drug that doesn’t have side effects that can hurt people?


11 posted on 02/17/2025 6:44:38 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DFG

Does anyone here know what the supposed ‘rationale’ for such a draconian/totalitarian policy might be? The only one I can come up with is that they want to ‘save’ the procedure for someone who they think might live longer, ie, someone who’s been ‘vaccinated’... Obscenely twisted, but that’s what I come up with...


12 posted on 02/17/2025 6:44:38 AM PST by drwoof
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To: Nextrush

That’s Dr Kennedy, suh


13 posted on 02/17/2025 6:46:10 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: DFG

He should have taken COQ 10 when he was first diagnosed.

It did wonders for me!


14 posted on 02/17/2025 6:46:43 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: DFG

Why take the vaccine that could kill him, too? I thought the forced vaxxes had been stopped.


15 posted on 02/17/2025 7:27:38 AM PST by madison10
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To: DFG

Analysis: People who took the Vax need new hearts more, apparently. For some reason.


16 posted on 02/17/2025 7:30:10 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: DFG
Once upon a time Americans lived with the delusion that the transplant process was governed strictly on pure medical need basis without favoritism in any way. Doctors, we were all told, are apolitical and not interested in celebrity, all lives were equal and they treated the cases that were the most urgent and with the best prognosis to survive long.

Then Governor Bob Casey of PA got a heart and a liver. Then Mickey Mantle also got a heart and a liver. Casey lived a while and Mantle died pretty soon after. The public took notice and the medical establishment admitted they were given favored treatment for publicity reasons to raise public awareness, apparently willing to sacrifice the people that died because Mantle got rental organs instead of them.

But the toothpaste was out of the tube for those who paid attention, Doctors will decide if you live or die based on what they think of you and how they benefit, not your need.

17 posted on 02/17/2025 7:37:48 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: DugwayDuke
DugwayDuke asks "Can you name a drug that doesn’t have side effects that can hurt people?"

Sure can. IVM. aka, Ivermectin

18 posted on 02/17/2025 7:48:48 AM PST by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: DFG

The American Social Credit System - denying treatment based on behavior, not whether or not you can afford it.


19 posted on 02/17/2025 7:51:25 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Bobbyvotes

You’re not a vet! My dear old dead Navy veteran’s favorite words come to mind...”Blow me like you know me.”


20 posted on 02/17/2025 8:05:07 AM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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