Vance's 12-Year-Old Relative Denied Heart Transplant due to no covid vaccine

[Ms. Toad]

74. Because when you get a transplant, you take immunosuppressant drugs

For the rest of your life, making you more susceptible to infections of all sorts. COVID specifically targets the heart, so without a vaccine you are inviting an illness which may destroy your new heart. People die on the waiting list for organs because there are not enough to go around - so everything is done to ensure that the organ will go to someone who will take care of it. Being vaccinated against a disease which leaves many people with heart damage is one of those ways they act responsibly so as to not throw a precious donated organ in the trash can.

Because of immune suppression, organ recipients are more likely to get sick from, and be seriously ill or die from COVID.

As someone whose daughter will someday need a liver transplant, I as applaud Cincinnati Children's, and all other hospitals, that rely on science to ensure that precious organs end up in those who are willing to be responsible enough to care for them.