Cincinnati Children’s Hospital allegedly denied a 12-year-old child a heart transplant because she isn’t vaccinated against Covid and the flu.
Adaline Deal, a relative of Vice President JD Vance by marriage, didn’t take the vaccine due to religious beliefs as nondenominational Christians.
Earlier this month Adaline’s doctor said she would need to get the Covid vaccine and a flu shot to be put on the heart transplant list.
Adaline was born with two heart defects.
“I thought, wow. So, it’s not about the kid. It’s not about saving her life,” Adaline’s mother, Janeen Deal told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported:
An Indiana family says Cincinnati Children’s won’t put their 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list because of her vaccination status.
Janeen Deal, who is related by marriage to Vice President JD Vance’s half-siblings, said the hospital requires her daughter to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, which Janeen and her husband are unwilling to do.
The couple adopted Adaline from China when she was 4 years old. Adaline was born with two heart conditions, Janeen said, and they adopted Adaline knowing she would one day need a heart transplant. Janeen said Adaline has been receiving treatment at Cincinnati Children’s for almost 10 years, and they hoped she would receive a heart transplant there because they consider it the best hospital in the area.
But earlier this month, Adaline’s doctor said she would need to have the two vaccinations to be put on the transplant list, according to Janeen. The couple told the doctor the vaccines conflict with their religious and medical beliefs, the family is nondenominational Christian, but the hospital would not honor a religious exemption.
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