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Unfortunately, donor organs are in very limited supply.

There are requirements and limitations put on people who are waiting for organs.

Some of those are no smoking, no drinking, no obesity, some mobility/exercise, and now in this case being vaccinated.

This is done for many reasons.

The biggest, donor organs are in very limited supply.

Also, the anti-rejection drugs taken by people who receive organs can drastically weaken their immune system. Even something like the flu can be very serious.

Wasting something literally life-giving as a donated organ is just not something that we are in a position to do.

I know some of this because my grandson died 3 1/2 years ago from pulmonary hypertension. He could have been placed on a donor list for a lung transplant but because he was also special needs he would not have been able to follow the extensive post-operative instructions for his rehabilitation.

It sucked.

If you're not an organ donor please become one.

 

Picturing people as white, yellow, and red is racist.

 

Unfortunately, donor organs are in very limited supply.

There are requirements and limitations put on people who are waiting for organs.

Some of those are no smoking, no drinking, no obesity, some mobility/exercise, and now in this case being vaccinated.

This is done for many reasons.

The biggest, donor organs are in very limited supply.

Also, the anti-rejection drugs taken by people who receive organs can drastically weaken their immune system. Even something like the flu can be very serious.

Wasting something literally life-giving as a donated organ is just not something that we are in a position to do.

I know some of this because my grandson died 3 1/2 years ago from pulmonary hypertension. He could have been placed on a donor list for a lung transplant but because he was also special needs he would not have been able to follow the extensive post-operative instructions for his rehabilitation.

It sucked.

If you're not an organ donor please become one.

 

From the actual article linked in the tweet some of you are "discussing" about.

The American Hospital Association, which represents nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems and networks in the United States, said it did not have data to share on the issue. But it said many transplant programs insist that patients get vaccinated for COVID-19 because of the weakened state of their immune system.

While any type of surgery may stress a patient’s immune system and leave them vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 later, organ transplants recipients are even more at risk because they have to take a powerful regime of drugs to suppress their immune system to keep their body from rejecting the new organ, which is seen by the body as a foreign object, Nancy Foster, AHA’s vice president for quality and patient safety policy said in a statement.

"Further, if patients were to wait to get their vaccine until after the surgery, it is unlikely that their immune system could mount the desired antibody reaction given that they are taking anti-rejection medications," she said.

Transplant centers in Washington, Vermont, Massachusetts and Alabama have policies requiring that recipients be vaccinated, according to news reports.

Cleveland Clinic recently decided to require COVID-19 vaccinations for both transplant recipients and living donors, the organization said in a statement.

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Also according to the article in the original tweet her reason for not wanting the vaccine is...

When a Colorado woman found out her hospital wouldn’t approve her kidney transplant surgery until she got the COVID-19 vaccine, she was left with a difficult decision pitting her health needs against her religious beliefs.

Leilani Lutali, a born-again Christian, went with her faith.

Even though she has stage 5 kidney disease that puts her at risk of dying without a new kidney, Lutali, 56, said she could not agree to be vaccinated because of the role that fetal cell lines have played in the development of vaccines. Several types of cell lines created decades ago using fetal tissue are widely used in medical manufacturing but the cells in them today are clones of the early cells, not the original tissue.

"As a Christian, I can't support anything that has to do with abortion of babies, and the sanctity of life for me is precious," she said.​

Considering that ibuprofen was developed using the very same cells she is against using I would bet at least some of the very drugs she would be given for her transplant were developed using those cells.