✅ True. Organ transplant centers have, for many years, required would-be recipients to be vaccinated against various diseases, now including COVID-19.
of the transplant list. Rather, the hospital wrote,"There is no candidate who is 'first on the list' since there are varying levels of priority for allocation of organs."Heart waiting to be transplanted in 2004 at Broussais Hospital In Paris, France.
Similarly, patients would not be listed for transplant unless they receive necessary vaccine to improve chances of transplant success. It is possible that a patient who is listed for transplant could be de-listed if they demonstrate continuous behaviors that could reduce the chance of transplant success, despite repeated opportunities to change these behaviors.
In brief, the ASTS argued that COVID-19 was particularly lethal among transplant recipients, that vaccination helped lower the risks from contracting COVID-19, and that requiring COVID-19 vaccination would simply mean adding one more vaccination to an existing, long-standing list of vaccinations already required for would-be organ transplant recipients.
Finally, another aspect of this story that many outlets did not properly report: the availability of other transplant centers. Each transplant program makes its own decisions about the status of transplant recipients, though they typically follow the same basic ethical guidelines. As such, Ferguson could, in principle, apply to another transplant center, provided he can find one that does not require COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite.
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