1:27 p.m .: Boston hospital refuses heart transplant to unvaccinated patient against Covid
A Boston hospital is denying one of its 31-year-old patients a heart transplant on the grounds that he is not vaccinated against Covid-19 and the transplant would thus be doomed to failure, television reports reported on Wednesday Americans. A spokeswoman for Brigham and Women’s Hospital confirmed in a statement that the coronavirus vaccine is “required” for all organ transplant candidates.
It was David Ferguson, the patient’s father, who testified on CNN and ABC about his son’s fight against “death”, saying he was “pushed to his last entrenchments”. The 30-year-old, who is to undergo a heart transplant in this Boston hospital, refuses to be vaccinated against the coronavirus: “It is fundamentally against his principles, he does not believe in it”, justified David Ferguson. And as the Brigham and Women’s Hospital “applies this policy (…) they have removed him from the list of heart transplant recipients”, he despairs.
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