A man who is willing to save his life with a kidney transplant is not willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine to guard his health after the operation – rendering himself ineligible for an organ.
Chad Carswell has had COVID-19 twice and recovered, and even though medical experts say immunity against the disease is stronger with a vaccine, he has steadfastly refused to get the shot, claiming he doesn’t need it, he told WSOC-TV.
The doctors say otherwise, and officials at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will not grant him the double amputee a new kidney without the jab.
“He said, ‘The last thing we need to talk about is your vaccination status,’ ” Carswell told WSOC of the conversation he had with a doctor. “And that’s when I politely told him there was nothing really to talk about it, it wasn’t up for debate [and] that I wasn’t getting it. Then, he told me, ‘You know you’ll die, if you don’t get it.’ And I said, ‘I’m willing to die.’ ”
Carswell has also undergone numerous major heart surgeries, WSOC said. He is on dialysis three times weekly, with a kidney functioning at just 4%.
He has turned down offers of kidneys from willing donors and has spoken to his family and others close to him about his decision.
“I was born free. I will die free,” he said. “I’m not changing my mind.”
His story comes on the heels of that of a Boston-area man who is refusing to get vaccinated and thus can’t get a new heart.
The immune-suppressant drugs people must take post-transplant to prevent organ rejection make patients more susceptible to infections, including COVID. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines lay that out among the vaccines necessary before a transplant.
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These Doctors and Hospitals involved in this bull **** should be ashamed of themselves! Do the illegal immigrants, being treated at by these people, that have invaded our country being required to be vaccinated? Probably not.
It’s the Biden Death Panel version of Obama’s Affordable Medicare, that proved to be quite unaffordable, Thanks to John McCain’s one vote. When you cede control of your basic things of food, housing, Medicine that as a self-governing American you are obligated to govern and make American Self-government a collective reality, you become a slave of the state,,,,they own you and when you don’t bow down, they just let you waste away. The STATE after all is supreme, the individuals having given away their right to control their own destiny. Sooner or later only the loyal remain, and nobody is left to protest.
Unfortunately i doubt these doctors HAVE A SOUL, which is needed to have any shame..
You vill get the shot…
Or you vill die because you refuse to listen to us…..
Yes these doctors and all the people associated to them should lose their licenses and their lives if Chad loses his.
AND what’s the bet, they are NOT DOING THE SAME for the millions of illegals, BIDEN HAS WELCOMED In..
Maybe the should remove the word baptist from their building as it is apparent they neither believe in Christianity nor do they employ certain medical professionals who do. I for one do no want someone who does not believe in Gods word taking care of me. satan takes all forms including doctors and hospital administrators.
I wonder, are these cretins, STILL PERFORMING ABORTIONS without checking vaccine statuses for the women??
I would bet that president joe biteme would not have to get all his shots should the wizard decide to give him his brain transplant…
YOU Can bet, EVERY democrat politician, has NEVER HAD a hospital DARE ask “ARE YOU vaccinated? IF not, then NO treatment for you”.