#Heart transplant patient unvaccinated

MENDON, Mass. — A Boston hospital is defending itself after a man's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set similar requirements to improve patients' chances of survival. The family of D.J. Ferguson said...

A 31-year-old man 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 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.

A US hospital has rejected a patient for a heart transplant at least in part because he is not vaccinated against Covid-19. DJ Ferguson, 31, is in dire need of a new heart, but Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston took him off their list, said his father, David. He...

BOSTON (CBS) – David Ferguson is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son DJ. He says the 31-year-old is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant. “My son has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he’s been pushed to the limit,” Ferguson said.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is refusing to perform a heart transplant on a man who won't get vaccinated against COVID-19.

A 31-year-old patient at Brigham and Women’s Hospital was removed from a heart transplant waiting list due to a policy that requires people on organ transplant waitlists to have received the COVID-19 vaccine and several other CDC-recommended vaccines. Art Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at the...

“Transplant teams have to make very difficult choices in selecting those who will receive the very scarce organs." A man who is in need of a heart transplant is reportedly being denied the opportunity for the surgery due to not being vaccinated against COVID-19, according to his family. However, Brigham...

(NewsNation Now) — A 31-year-old Boston man was taken off the heart transplant list because he is refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his family said. DJ Ferguson has a hereditary heart condition and he’s been hospitalized since November. His family says he was first on the list to receive the transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but he is no longer eligible due to his vaccination status.

DJ Ferguson, a 31-year-old Boston-area man in need of a new heart, will not be listed for a heart transplant due to not having had the COVID-19 vaccination, according to a Tuesday update to an online fund drive. The page and multiple reports state he is receiving treatment at Brigham...

Vaccination against COVID-19 is now a requirement for organ transplants at Brigham and Women's Hospital and many, many others across the United States. The danger of contracting COVID-19 is so great that hospitals can not take the risk. CBS Boston:. The family says he was at the front of the...

A nurse of 3½ years, Heather Ciarlariello encountered relatively few COVID patients, at first. She treated mostly heart and lung transplant patients at Cleveland Clinic’s cardiovascular intensive care unit after earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Akron. When the pandemic hit, she actually got time off. ...

A Washington state patient who said he will ultimately be denied an organ transplant due to his refusal to undergo a coronavirus vaccine injection spoke out on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Wednesday. Derek Kovick told host Tucker Carlson the University of Washington Medical Center is not permitting patients to remain...

JOHN WHYTE: Welcome, everyone. I'm Dr. John Whyte. I'm the chief medical officer at WebMD, and you're watching Coronavirus in Context. We're two years in. It's a lot of ethical issues that have occurred during that time. So to help me unpack some of these issues, I'm joined by my good friend Dr. Art Caplan. He's the head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Caplan, thanks for joining me. Good to see you again.