In the US at the Boston hospital, the patient, who had been in line for the transplant has refused to receive a Covid vaccine. US television media reported Wednesday.
According to a statement from a spokeswoman for Brigham and Women’s to AFP, from now vaccination against the coronavirus -19 is must “required” for organ transplant recipients there.
David Ferguson, is the patient’s father, he seemed on CNN and ABC news channels to share the family’s story, saying his 31-year-old son has been to the “edge of death” and “pushed to the limit” waiting for a heart transplant.
The patient, who had been in line for the transplant at the Boston hospital, has refused to receive a Covid -19 vaccine.
“It’s kind of against his basic principles, he doesn’t believe in it,” Ferguson told ABC.
“It’s a policy they are applying and so because he won’t get the shot, they took him off the list of a heart transplant,” his father said.
The hospital “requires several CDC-recommended vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine,” Brigham and Women’s said the statement.
Also according to the statement they said that the hospital needs “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,”
A medical ethicist Mr. Caplan at New York University, expressed CBS: “Post any transplant your immune system is cut off. Covid could kill you.”
Caplan said that “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,”
That is why “patients are not active on the waitlist without” the vaccine, said the hospital, where the son of Mr Ferguson’s is still being treated.
The father said he respected his son’s choice and planned to get him transferred to another hospital.
“But we are running out of time,” Ferguson said of his son’s condition.
In The United States, only 62% of the total population is fully vaccinated — due to the effect of deep political divisions over the shots — has calculated around  60 million Covid19 infections and around 872,000 deaths.
