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BOSTON PATIENT REMOVED FROM HEART TRANSPLANT LIST FOR BEING UNVACCINATED

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Boston patient removed from heart transplant list for being unvaccinated
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A 31-year-old father has been removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston
hospital because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said.

DJ Ferguson’s family say he was first on the list to receive the transplant at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital — but he is no longer eligible because of his
vaccination status, CBS Boston reported.

DJ Ferguson was removed from the heart transplant list at a Boston
hospital.Family handout

His father, David Ferguson, said his son — who is fighting for his life in the
hospital and is in desperate need of the transplant — doesn’t believe in the
COVID-19 vaccine.

“It’s kind of against his basic principles, he doesn’t believe in it. It’s a
policy they are enforcing and so because he won’t get the shot, they took him
off the list of a heart transplant,” David told the outlet.



“My son has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he’s been pushed
to the limit.”

Ferguson has two children and is expecting a third with his partner Heather,
according to a GoFundMe page set up for him.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is a Harvard teaching facility, said
research had shown transplant recipients were at a much higher risk of dying
from COVID compared to non-transplant patients.

DJ Ferguson’s family are thinking about relocating him to another
hospital.Facebook / Heather Dawson

“We do everything we can to ensure that a patient who receives a transplanted
organ has the greatest chance of survival,” a spokesperson told The Post.

“Our Mass General Brigham healthcare system requires several CDC-recommended
vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine, and lifestyle behaviors for transplant
candidates to create both the best chance for a successful operation and to
optimize the patient’s survival after transplantation, given that their immune
system is drastically suppressed

“Patients are not active on the waitlist without this.”

The hospital’s policy requiring recipients to have the COVID-19 shot is in line
with many other transplant programs across the US, the spokesperson added.

DJ Ferguson was first on the list to receive the transplant but is no longer
eligible.WBZ-TV Brigham and Women’s Hospital has a policy requiring recipients
to have the COVID-19 shot.WBZ-TV

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommends that
immunocompromised people, which includes organ transplant recipients, be
vaccinated because they are especially vulnerable to COVID.

The hospital denied that a candidate could be “first on the list” for a
transplant because there are varying levels of priority for allocation of
organs.

Ferguson’s family are thinking about relocating him to another hospital that
doesn’t have the vaccination policy — but fear he is already too weak to be
moved.

“We are aggressively pursuing all options, but we are running out of time,”
David said.

The family said the care he’s received so far at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
has been great — but his relatives can’t ignore Ferguson’s beliefs.

“I think my boy is fighting pretty damn courageously and he has integrity and
principles he really believes in and that makes me respect him all the more,”
David said. “It’s his body. It’s his choice.”

Ferguson has been hospitalized since November ever since his lungs started
filling with blood and fluid due to a hereditary heart issue, the GoFundMe page
said.

The fundraiser said that his resistance to the vaccine also has to do with his
fears of heart inflammation, which health officials have said in rare cases have
been associated with the shots.

“But in DJs case he can NOT afford for his heart to swell any more than it
already is right now. He is at extremely high risk of sudden death if it does,”
the page said. 

DJ Ferguson isn’t the first patient to be denied a transplant due to his
vaccination status.Facebook

“We have had many conversations with the doctors, who confirmed that his heart
COULD swell and go into severe crisis but they can’t guarantee anything and it’s
a choice we will have to make if he wants to be listed.”

Both Ferguson and his partner Heather, who are self-employed, have been unable
to work since he was admitted, according to the site.

It wasn’t immediately clear what Ferguson did for a living, but the site said
his “job requires much physical labor.”

Ferguson isn’t the first patient to be denied a transplant due to his
vaccination status.

Colorado woman Leilani Lutali was removed from the kidney transplant list in
October because she — and her donor — hadn’t been vaccinated.

UCHealth, which operates hospitals and urgent care facilities throughout
Colorado, said the COVID vaccine was one of several measures patients needed to
take to give the organ the best chance of not being rejected.

DJ Ferguson is fighting for his life in the hospital and is in desperate need of
the transplant.Facebook / Heather Dawson

The health system said the driving force behind its vaccine policy was studies
showing transplant patients are more likely to die if they contract COVID-19.
The mortality rate for transplant patients who get COVID is more than 20
percent, according to UCHealth.

“An organ transplant is a unique surgery that leads to a lifetime of specialized
management to ensure an organ is not rejected, which can lead to serious
complications, the need for a subsequent transplant surgery, or even death,”
UCHealth told The Post at the time.  

“Physicians must consider the short- and long-term health risks for patients as
they consider whether to recommend an organ transplant.”

Ohio man Mike Ganin, who is vaccinated against COVID, was denied a kidney
transplant last October because his donor hadn’t received her shot.

“I don’t want to get the vaccine. I’ve got reasons — medical, religious, and
also freedom,” the donor, Sue George, told WKYC.


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