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for now. at the same time, omicron is still fueling a pandemic record for hospitalizations with some hospitals forced to make tough decisions like this one. in massachusetts, a patient was removed from the heart transplant list after he refused to get vaccinated for covid. joining me now to discuss tasha burns and dr. michelle mcmurray heath, a molecular immunologist and former fda official. this transplant story is getting a ton of attention. tell us exactly what happened. well, as it should be. so patients needing organ transplants have had to to meet certain medical requirements. now being vaccinated against covid-19 is one of the requirements that many hospitals in the country but some patients are saying no to the shot and being denied those transplants, watch. tracy ferguson speaking out because her 31-year-old son d.j.
s survival after the transplantation. that is common type of requirement for a transplant. before covid if you hadn t had your shots, they wouldn t do the operation on you. they would make you wait. they re trying to make the expensive procedure with a lot of rehab involved successful, this isn t some new issue about, oh my goodness, he won t vaccinate, we re going to discriminate about him. when it comes about concerns with side effects, whatever the risks of the shot, they re lower than covid. ferguson, a father of two with another child on the way remains in the hospital. he was in the o.r. for a separate surgery as we were speaking to her. his life is on the line. do you think he might change his mind about the vaccine knowing that? he might. he could wake up after his surgery today and say, all right, i m willing to take my risk. do you hope he does?
Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.