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  • By Al Mayadeen Net
  • Source: Agencies
  • 27 Jan 2022 11:30
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The 31-year-old patient has been to the "edge of death" and "pushed to the limit" waiting for a heart transplant, his father says.

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    Boston hospital refuses heart transplant to an unvaccinated patient.

According to US television media, a hospital in Boston refused to perform a heart transplant on a patient who had not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

In a statement to AFP, a spokeswoman for Brigham and Women's Hospital confirmed that vaccination against the coronavirus is "required" for organ transplant recipients there.

The patient's father, David Ferguson, appeared on television to share the family's story, saying his 31-year-old son has been "pushed to the limit" while waiting for a heart transplant.

The patient, who was scheduled for the transplant at the Boston hospital, has refused to receive the Covid vaccine.

"It's kind of against his basic principles, he doesn't believe in it," Ferguson told ABC.

"It's a policy they are enforcing and so because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list of a heart transplant," his father said.

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The hospital "requires several CDC-recommended vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine," Brigham and Women's explained.

The hospital also requires "lifestyle behaviors for transplant candidates to create both the best chance for a successful operation and to optimize the patient's survival after transplantation, given that their immune system is drastically suppressed," the hospital statement read. 

'A transplant and no vaccine could kill you'

Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at New York University, stated, "Post any transplant your immune system is cut off. Covid could kill you."

"The organs are scarce and they 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," Caplan said. 

That is why "patients are not active on the waitlist without the vaccine," said the hospital, where Ferguson's son is still being treated. 

The father stated that he respected his son's decision and intended to have him transferred to a different hospital.

"But we are running out of time," Ferguson said of his son's condition.

In the United States, where only 62% of the total population is fully vaccinated – owing in part to deep political divisions over the shots – nearly 60 million Covid infections and 872,000 deaths have been recorded.

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