BOSTON HOSPITAL DENIES HEART TRANSPLANT TO YOUNG FATHER BECAUSE HE'S NOT VACCINATED
"It's kind of against his basic principles. He doesn't believe in it. It's a policy they are enforcing so, because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list of a heart transplant." -David Ferguson about his son D.J.
A hospital in Boston is blocking a man from receiving a necessary heart transplant because he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
David Ferguson told WBZ-TV his 31-year-old son D.J. has "gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he's been pushed to the limit," revealing Brigham and Women's Hospital has barred him from receiving the transplant he needs.
D.J., a father of two, was reportedly at the top of the list to receive a heart transplant—until it was discovered he does not have, nor does he intent to receive, a COVID-19 inoculation.
"It's kind of against his basic principles," Ferguson explained. "He doesn't believe in it. It's a policy they are enforcing and because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list for a heart transplant."
Brigham and Women's Hospital explained the decision with a statement:
Like many other transplant programs in the United States—the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle behaviors required for transplant candidates in the Mass General Brigham system in order to create both the best chance for a successful operation and also the patient's survival after transplantation.
The reason for the requirement is because a transplant patient's immune system is in a severely weakened state post-surgery.
Dr. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told the local news outlet that, immediately following any transplant surgery, a patient's immune system is essentially "shut off."
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