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In reply to the discussion: Vance's 12-Year-Old Relative Denied Heart Transplant due to no covid vaccine [View all]
Ms. Toad
(38,581 posts)91. Every time an organ is transplanted, there are others who could have gotten it who may die.
So it isn't a choice about saving the girl. It is a choice about which little girl to save.
The transplant center has to choose. Rather than base that choice on who has the most money, who is smarter, gender, race, etc. Transplant centers base it on medical criteria, including whether the potential recipient is willing to protect the heart from diseases which specifically attack the heart, as COVID does.
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Vance's 12-Year-Old Relative Denied Heart Transplant due to no covid vaccine [View all]
moonshinegnomie
Feb 2025
OP
It's apparent they don't care if the kid lives or dies. She'll definitely die without a heart transplant, so you'd
Vinca
Feb 2025
#1
Also, there's a hella lot of anti-immune system drugs the kid will have to take...
haele
Feb 2025
#88
More than like because they failed to follow rules set up. If they can not follow the simple rules
LiberalArkie
Feb 2025
#62
The intentions of this administration are harsh enough, the unintended concequences they're sowing will be brutal ...
marble falls
Feb 2025
#2
If they don't trust them about the Vaccines why would they trust them to do a heart transplant ?
JI7
Feb 2025
#3
So you dont come in sicker than you already are, or infect medical staff or other patients.
hatrack
Feb 2025
#7
How about being chemically immunosuppressed long after the operation, so that COVID likely means death?
hatrack
Feb 2025
#26
Every time an organ is transplanted, there are others who could have gotten it who may die.
Ms. Toad
Feb 2025
#91
actually the fact that the child is non compliant with medical advice is a terrific reason to deny the transplant
dsc
Feb 2025
#119
They are respecting the fact that the heart could be wasted and others are waiting for it who WOULD
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#50
Except, it does. And has for decades. Not everyone gets on the list, and not everyone ends up with an organ.
mucholderthandirt
Feb 2025
#106
Renew Deal, I address this below, but realize the recipient will have zero immunity to nearly anything
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#21
No. The usual situation--as I addressed below when it is life and death is that courts get involved
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#34
Remember how many people died of Covid before the vaccine? Most of them were
Scrivener7
Feb 2025
#82
Transplant centers often require a sobriety period, usually 6 months, before a patient can receive a liver transplant.
sop
Feb 2025
#35
Wasting a heart or any organ on someone refusing vaccines knowing they will have zilch immunity
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#12
This story makes me ill. Kennedy and his ilk have contributed to the dumbing down
Passages
Feb 2025
#16
What a compelling testimonial, Marthe. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Diamond_Dog
Feb 2025
#70
Good. Why should a heart be wasted when she gets covid in her immunosuppressed state?
travelingthrulife
Feb 2025
#115