A man in Massachusetts may be choosing death over a life-saving transplant because he refuses to get vaccine.
DJ Ferguson, a patient who was previously at the top of the heart transplant list at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been removed from the recipient list because of his refusal.
Hospitals used to deny transplants to needy patients all the time because there were far fewer donor organs than there were patients who needed them.
It is a matter of life and death for these circumstances to remain tragic.
In the middle of a Pandemic, hospitals have had to add an additional criterion to their decision-making: whether a transplant candidate is likely to survive the disease once their immune system is destroyed.
The head of medical ethics at NYU told CBS that the immune system is shut off after a transplant.
Ferguson's family doesn't see it that way.
David Ferguson, the patient's father, told CBS that his son has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns.
Ferguson said that they took him off the list of heart transplant because he wouldn't get the shot.
The hospital told CBS that they are not the only ones who enforce the policy.
The COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle behaviors required for transplant candidates.
The report went international after a British tabloid picked it up.
The ethics of medicine and the overwhelmingly difficult decisions American hospitals have to face have only been worsened by the Pandemic.
The Fergusons have made their choice and have staked their principles potentially over their son's life, but it's also up to the hospitals to ensure organs have the best rate of success in order to save lives.
The hospital refused to give a heart transplant to a man who wouldn't get a vaccine.
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