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In Boston, USA, a 31-year-old man has just been removed from the list of people awaiting a heart transplant. In question: his refusal to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
It is the Boston hospital which announces the news by press release. One of their patients, aged 31, has just been removed from the list of people awaiting a heart transplant, because the young man refuses to be vaccinated against Covid-19. He was, however, placed on the priority list, but the fact that he refuses the vaccine changes the situation.
The hospital justifies itself
The hospital explains its decision:Like many transplant programs in the United States, the Covid-19 vaccine is a requirement for people wishing to have a transplant. Both for the operation to be successful and for the survival of the patient after the transplant”. For the establishment,vaccination coupled with a discipline of life creates for the candidate for a transplant the best conditions for a successful operation and optimizes the survival of the patient after the transplant, in particular because the immune system is weakened in a drastic way”.
Dr. Arthur Caplan, chief medical ethics officer at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told CBS News that after any organ transplant, a patient’s immune system “is practically at a standstill” and that “even a cold can be fatal. He adds that “organs are rare“and therefore”they weren’t going to transplant them into people who have little chance of living while others who are vaccinated have a better chance of surviving after the operation”.
Nationally, more than 100,000 candidates are on waitlists for organ transplantation. With a shortage of available organs, we do everything we can to ensure that patients who receive a transplanted organ have the greatest chance of survival. Read more here: https://t.co/bBQwtxzP7D
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“His body, his choice”
The family of the young man spoke in the media, and announces that they plan to change establishment for the continuation of the care, but that “time is running out” for him, because the young man is weakened. The father explains that his son categorically refuses to be vaccinated and says “respect his choice : “My boy fights with great courage and he has integrity and principles that he truly believes in and that makes me respect him all the more. It’s his body, his choice.”