Hospital won't let 9-year old get kidney transplant from his dad because his dad isn't vaccinated

The tests have a detection threshold. The potential incubation period for COVID-19 is up to 14 days before symptoms develop or a test registers positive. So all they can do is confirm if you're currently positive - they cannot confer an all-clear.

So yes, the dad could quarantine for 14 days in the hospital but no insurance is going to cover any of that stay when the alternative is simple shot. That's why it's not offered as an alternative.

It's a private transaction only if the father and son perform the procedures themselves. If you pull in medical staff and facilities you have an industry regulating the transaction. And if insurance is paying for any of it you have every rate payer on the hook for it.

And what difference would it make?
Vaccinated or not he could get COVID. Why are you guys so dishonest?

Covid vax MANDATES are immoral. However, I would get the vax to save the life of my child. It wouldn’t even be a question. This guy probably gets fired up as he raises his tough guy “don’t tread on me” and “let’s go Brandon” flags. What a freaking loser.

This type of crap is still going on?

Im a transplant surgeon.

There are a few very good reasons for a transplant program to want living donors to get vaccinated for covid and a host of other disease.

When you do a living donor transplant you are putting a healthy person at risk. You are doing a complex operation on someone who doesn't need it, therefore, subjecting them to all of the possible complications associated with the operation. Therefore you try and do everything possible to minimize those risks, including making sure the patient has required immunizations. In the case of covid the donor is going to be in the hospital - a place where your there are covid patients and people working with them, so there is a higher risk of becoming infected than out in the world.

Donor complications are tracked very closely by internal and external oversight boards - if a donor got sick from covid they got around the time time of operation it could have serious implications for the program

Also this kid lives with his dad - the kid is going to be heavily immunosuppressed and at very high risk for severe covid and death if he gets it. The science surrounding this is clear. Why wouldn't the dad want to get immunized so he reduces the risk of bringing it home to his kid?

Any complication to a donor is devastating personally to those taking care of them. These people are treated like VIPs and they are truly selfless heroes. Just get a stupid shot and help

Simpler solution.

Do the transplant without mandating the jab.

If you don't believe in science you shouldn't get your kid another kidney.

Dad (along with mom) chose to have child.

Dad chose not to get vaccinated.

Unfortunately, son needs a kidney.

Kid will be immunocompromised post-procedure

Dad COULD choose to advocate better for his son by getting a vaccine hundreds of millions have received with minimal to no adverse reactions

Dad is using his free will and decision making that we as Americans love to flaunt...unfortunately there are consequences for his actions. His actions he can CHOOSE to CHANGE.

Must suck to be part of the solution to your sons health problem and you're making it about yourself.

This dad is a POS. Get the vaccine.

The restrictions make no sense, and as usual are not “following the science”. The hospital will use a kidney from someone who is deceased and was not vaccinated, but they won’t allowing using this dad’s kidney because he is not vaccinated. So the hospital is requiring a live donor to be vaccinated but not a deceased donor. As usual with all these COVID policies and restrictions, they do not “follow the science” and make zero sense.

So quarantine in a hotel or at home is inadequate? And then testing afterwards is inadequate?

Got it. At least we solved the usefulness of that.

Interestingly it quoted the wrong post because why not?

I know most of you are gullible and social media only exposes this more. Just like LRC is full of trolls, this guy is a troll. He’s doing this ON PURPOSE. He’s not gonna donate his kidney. He never had an intention to. This was to just drum up noise about rights. It was to create friction. Now he will have dozens of people lining up to donate their kidney. The marketing worked. You guys fell for it.

The requirement is protecting the living donor, not the recipient.

Its not an issue of the father infecting the son with covid through the kidney. The transplant is unwilling to put the donor at risk without having all the safeguards in place

It makes sense and follows the science.

And the award for worst “father” of the year goes to…

Exactly, this is really dumb.

If I had to give my heart and die to save one of my two kids I would not even have to think twice about it.

If you are a parent you understand this.