If a 14-year-old girl who hasn’t taken the COVID shot doesn’t get it, she won’t be getting a life-saving kidney transplant, Duke University Hospital in North Carolina has ruled.
The girl came from Ukraine two years ago when her American parents adopted her. She has a rare degenerative kidney condition known as Senior Loken Syndrome, which requires a transplant.
Ironically, the child has already had, and recovered from, the COVID virus. Yet, when speaking with the press, Duke officials’ response was simply that they try to get transplants to, “as many eligible patients as possible.”
Other hospitals have similar COVID vaccine rules, including Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center, require a range of vaccines prior to a transplant, as well as the COVID shots.
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Yahoo! News December 10, 2022