Heart transplant denied to unvaccinated patient

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Heart transplant denied to unvaccinated patient

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Here's one for y'all to get your teeth into...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60132765

I find this comment from the patient's father quite noteworthy:
"My boy is fighting pretty damn courageously and he has integrity and principles he really believes in and that makes me respect him all the more,"
I don't think that would be my reaction, as a father.
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Re: Heart transplant denied to unvaccinated patient

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He thinks he knows better than his heart surgeon.
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These are the stories that gets you sickos off right?
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Re: Heart transplant denied to unvaccinated patient

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Dr Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told CBS News that after any organ transplant a patient's immune system is all but shut down and even a common cold can prove fatal.


"The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving," said Dr Caplan.

100,000 people are on the waiting list.

Whats the problem?
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Re: Heart transplant denied to unvaccinated patient

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There’s actually some decent rational behind not doing transplants in the unvaccinated when a disease is spreading and people are likely to catch it. The only way I would disagree with this is if the individual has natural immunity and had already been infected… but even then the risk of being immune compromised could put the heart to waste.

I see nothing wrong with this. Receipt of a heart is a privilege not a right. Anyone who gets a transplant is on borrowed time. See how it works when you follow science? Vaccines can be a great thing for many people. But that doesn’t mean all vaccines have to be for everyone.
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Re: Heart transplant denied to unvaccinated patient

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What! Soon you’ll want alcohols to get sober before giving them liver #3, or 4.
Crazy talk I say :smt040
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