Posted on 01/25/2022 12:57:20 PM PST by Red Badger
A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.
DJ Ferguson’s family say he was first on the list to receive the transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — but he is no longer eligible because of his vaccination status, CBS Boston reported.
His father, David Ferguson, said his son — who is fighting for his life in the hospital and is in desperate need of the transplant — doesn’t believe in the COVID-19 vaccine.
“It’s kind of against his basic principles, he doesn’t believe in it. It’s a policy they are enforcing and so because he won’t get the shot, they took him off the list of a heart transplant,” David told the outlet.
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Just wondering, is there any medical reason for such a decision? Is a heart patient vulnerable to the virus, in a weakened condition when having surgery?
So is it a medically sound decision, or are they making a political statement with this policy?
We the unvaccinated should be denying our organs to the vaccinated.
When will these bastards be brought to justice?
It seems to me I’d want nothing foreign in my body as I went
in for a transplant.
Would I want to receive a questionable vaccine in the months
prior?
No.
Those who vow to protect us now have no qualms about letting us die. We are dealing with a godless medical community, and the few believers within will not speak out.
Politics.........pure politics................
Wrong and evil.
Yet, it seems a poor decision on what hill to die on.
Let’s see...
1. Maybe I will get a side effect from a mainly inert pseudo vaccine.
2. Maybe I won’t have a heart.
I don’t know why people in this position don’t just fake a vaccination. It’s easy enough to do.
There is no reason to tell the transplant team that you are unvaccinated.
Is this true?
What is with how cruel and in compassionate doctors and hospitals have become?
SurelY violating the Hippocratic oath?
As a patient I know what this obsession with COVID has cost. This is too far. WE HAVE TO STOP ACTING CHILDISHLY LIKE THIS IS THE BLACK PLAGUE! It’s not, I can tell you that!
Sue them thru the nose!
Take him to a nicer hospital!
Only unvaccinated should receive untaxed donoe organs.
Apparently it’s not as easy as people think. medical records are shared across networks. All I had to do was sign a waiver when I was in the hospital last year and they had automatic access to ALL my medical history..................................
...the very definition of...
...HEARTLESS!
After all, the vaccinated never get Covid.
Oh, wait... 
No reason to have insurance if you are just going to be refused treatment.
Medical community has already been doing this sort of thing to smokers for years.
Perhaps. OTOH, do we really know that the vax is safe for someone a) IN a dire situation NOW, or b) who has a transplant done within short time?
And maybe his existing heart is too weak to handle the spike proteins the vaccine generates
Or his heart couldn’t handle the side effect of myocarditis or pericarditis?
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