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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Damn, that is pretty cruel and heartless of you considering there are people who genuinely can not be vaccinated for medical reasons and you are advocating that they shouldn't be able to receive potentially life saving treatment and surgery.
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Oh good, you just showed up to be stupid. Congratulations.
You understand these clinics are a run by doctors who are professionals, and make excruciatingly difficult decisions on who gets access to the limited supply of organs, right? And if that extremely unlikely situation was actually a thing that has ever happened, they would consider that in their review of the case? I can tell you this is the case because I know rules like these are not rigid. But they are also not bent for imaginary fantasy reasons. They are considered on their medical basis.
The reason why vaccination is important is because post transplant they need to stay in the hospital with many other post transplant patients as they go through rehabilitation. This is obviously an extremely vulnerable time, and all mitigatable efforts are taken to reduce the risk of death, given the limited organ supply. For the rest of the life of the patient they are on immune suppressing drugs so their body doesn't attack the organ. This means they have limited ability to fight off infections and disease, so vaccines are used to help those defences.
When decisions are made on who gets an organ, one of the considerations is chance of survival/success and it is based on interviews with patients, confirming support networks, and yes, even willingness to take medications for life, do blood work when required, and any other tests that tie you to the transplant clinic. So if a potential recipient refuses protections, their chance of survival decreases, and may also require another organ should that one fail due to prolonged hospitalization for vaccine preventable illnesses. Which means they are lower priority for an organ, because the primary goal is to extend lives. Given she needs a heart, and that covid is well known for increasing heart complications, it's even more important a factor. The logical conclusion is that the organ should go to someone who will do maximal effort to keep it healthy.
Thanks for stopping in to show everyone how smooth brained you are though, gave me an opportunity to share some facts.