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Zeus posted...

So the problem isn't COVID, but hospitals' refusal to provide adequate treatment?

Transplants are generally refused to people that stand a significant chance of not surviving for very long post-transplant. Given that transplant recipients have their immune systems nuked prior to the transplant and suppressed for the rest of their lives, not being vaccinated against a deadly pandemic puts him at extremely high risk of wasting the heart. So they give it to somebody that will be more likely to be able to use it.

It's not a question of adequate care, it's a question of using an extremely limited resource to do the most good possible. Those resources are significantly more likely to be wasted in unvaccinated patients than vaccinated (especially where the vast majority of people that are still unvaccinated at this point aren't exactly lining up to comply with other precautions, putting them at even greater risk), so the unvaccinated are passed over.

To put it in terms you're more likely to agree with, would you give a heart transplant to an unrepentant alcoholic?