> Odds of survival have long been factored into prioritizing who will get donated organs.
The negros have lower odds.
But that is against the law. But it's good to know if the law is ever relaxed they too can be added into the list. Because medicine and ethics is whateves.
And we can always wink wink it. Who has lower vaccination rates?
It's also possible the medical profession are not evil cliched Nazi like doctors and this article is not accurate.
This is more about the people reading and supporting this. Dead 'Republicans' are funny. Of course it's poor people really, it's just we've found a way to not like the poor minorities by proxy and not feel bad. It does feel good though right? Gladiator was brutal, but an amazing and really fun movie. Go read about the time the Mexican Zetas did it. It'll make you throw up. But we like to kill. This just doesn't feel 'fun' to me.
But Covid's kill rate is really low. Combined with the majority of the population being vaccinated, catching the infection is also very unlikely now. So why deny a person their chance at a life over this? Seems unnecessarily cruel.
I'm not saying that to sound smarter, I'm stating a fact - in their scenario the chance of them dying is millions of times greater if they refuse the vaccine.
If I needed a transplant for anything, I sure as hell wouldn’t trust my body on its own because “COVID’s kill rate is very low”. That’s not to mention the rate and severity of permanent lung damage and lingering heart issues.
It’s also a matter of resource scarcity, so the vaccination becomes a layer of filtration that helps maximise the chance of success. It’s much like the dilemma of unvaccinated COVID patients, they take up resources and often elected not to take the vaccine for no good reason, when they turn they have a much lower chance of making it through compared to a breakthrough vaccinated patient. The first in best dressed attitude is not compatible with optimally saving as many people as possible in a resource scarce environment. Hence the increased triaging
"Odds of survival have long been factored into prioritizing who will get donated organs. And requiring vaccinations against devastating infectious diseases is also standard. Organ recipients are already generally required to be vaccinated against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, and tetanus, among others diseases."
None of those diseases have high kill rates. Kill rates aren't the justification being used.
It's about maximizing success of the transplant. This is just one more vaccination in a list of vaccinations.
This isn't surprising to anyone remotely familiar with eligibility requirements for organ transplants. There are all sorts of choices a patient can make that would make them ineligible.
Hep A - 0.3% for adults ages 15 to 39, and 2.1% for adults ages 40 and old [1]
Hep B - 14% [2]
Influenza - 0.2% (calculated from stats on wikipedia)
Tetanus - <15% with treatment, >25% without treatment [3]
Covid - 1.4% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have a fatal outcome, while 98.6% recover [4]
So no, most of those diseases have much higher kill rate than covid. Also, those vaccines have been proven over decades. Covid vaccines have barely been studied for a year.
I need a transplant, heart and liver and this good news. People need to make good decisions when getting a transplant. There is very little room for error. If someone is going to neglect a simple vaccine how in the world are they going to manage being stewards of an organ, a gift of life.
There is no shortage of people needing transplants. You have to prove to the committee and doctors at every stage you are worth being transplanted or a better candidate will take over your spot in a hurry
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 45.9 ms ] threadThe negros have lower odds.
But that is against the law. But it's good to know if the law is ever relaxed they too can be added into the list. Because medicine and ethics is whateves.
And we can always wink wink it. Who has lower vaccination rates?
It's also possible the medical profession are not evil cliched Nazi like doctors and this article is not accurate.
This is more about the people reading and supporting this. Dead 'Republicans' are funny. Of course it's poor people really, it's just we've found a way to not like the poor minorities by proxy and not feel bad. It does feel good though right? Gladiator was brutal, but an amazing and really fun movie. Go read about the time the Mexican Zetas did it. It'll make you throw up. But we like to kill. This just doesn't feel 'fun' to me.
And if they don’t, well that’s more input to my ‘Laugh at people who died because they didn’t take the vaccine’ Facebook group!’
‘Look at me, feeling holy saving lives through science! I know better than you!’
Medical science trumps stupid beliefs whether you are Steve Jobs or some idiot feeding off facebook.
As per the article "Organ recipients are already generally required to be vaccinated against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, and tetanus"
If they are too fucking stupid to take a simple injection to save their life then so be it. There is no rationale for them not to take it.
> If they trust science enough to get a transplant they can trust science enough to get vaccinated
Also, it doesn’t make you seem smarter if you call people who disagree with your position ‘fucking stupid’.
> I'm stating a fact
No, you’re not. You’re just insulting people.
It isn't. In the US, the daily infection rate is currently 3 people per 10,000 per day. That's 1% per month - higher than the June 2020 peak.
It’s also a matter of resource scarcity, so the vaccination becomes a layer of filtration that helps maximise the chance of success. It’s much like the dilemma of unvaccinated COVID patients, they take up resources and often elected not to take the vaccine for no good reason, when they turn they have a much lower chance of making it through compared to a breakthrough vaccinated patient. The first in best dressed attitude is not compatible with optimally saving as many people as possible in a resource scarce environment. Hence the increased triaging
None of those diseases have high kill rates. Kill rates aren't the justification being used.
It's about maximizing success of the transplant. This is just one more vaccination in a list of vaccinations.
This isn't surprising to anyone remotely familiar with eligibility requirements for organ transplants. There are all sorts of choices a patient can make that would make them ineligible.
Hep A - 0.3% for adults ages 15 to 39, and 2.1% for adults ages 40 and old [1]
Hep B - 14% [2]
Influenza - 0.2% (calculated from stats on wikipedia)
Tetanus - <15% with treatment, >25% without treatment [3]
Covid - 1.4% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have a fatal outcome, while 98.6% recover [4]
So no, most of those diseases have much higher kill rate than covid. Also, those vaccines have been proven over decades. Covid vaccines have barely been studied for a year.
[1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/70180/WHO_I...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24523214/
[3] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000615.htm
[4] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...
If they state they wound take not the SARS-COV2 vaccines - what is yhe likelihood that they would cooperate with other vaccines.
This process is difficult for the patients and family. It is a limited resource. It makes an abundance of sense to be very selective in this process.
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There is no shortage of people needing transplants. You have to prove to the committee and doctors at every stage you are worth being transplanted or a better candidate will take over your spot in a hurry