The Independent

JD Vance's relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status

James Liddell
Fri, February 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM EST4 min read

A relative of Vice President JD Vance says an Ohio hospital has refused to put her 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list over her vaccine status.

Jeneen Deal, a mom-of-12 from Indiana who is related to Vance's half-siblings through marriage, adopted Adaline from China as a 4-year-old knowing the little girl had two heart conditions, Ebstein's anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, that meant she would one day require a transplant.

The girl has been receiving treatment from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, a leader in pediatric organ transplantation, for almost a decade. On January 17, Deal said Adaline's doctor confirmed to the family that she was in heart failure.

"My heart's getting sick," Adaline Deal told Local 12. "I get tired. My legs get [too] tired to stand."

The facility requires that heart transplant patients receive vaccinations for Covid-19 and flu as recipients are at much higher risk of infection - something the Deals aren't willing to allow for their daughter.

Deal and her husband Brayton, who are both members of a non-denominational Christian church, said that the vaccines conflict with their religious and medical beliefs and that they would not be willing to inoculate their daughter.

The 12-year-old has been receiving treatment for two heart conditions, with her doctor confirming last month that she was in heart failure. (Supplied/Jeneen Deal)
The 12-year-old has been receiving treatment for two heart conditions, with her doctor confirming last month that she was in heart failure. (Supplied/Jeneen Deal)
The pair have broadcast both their faith and vaccine skepticism in posts on their Facebook pages.

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Dora Hates You

A child sacrificed on the alter of the ignorant. Human sacrifice in the name of religion.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The vaccine is more dangerous than the failing heart?

It sound like the poor child has outlived her usefulness.

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I was right.

They might as well 'tag and bag' her now.

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Dora Hates You

Maybe one day there will be a cure for superstition.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

How "Great" was America for her?

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So... America's Great Now?

A heart transplant should also be against their beliefs along with transfusions if they truly believe what they claim precludes receiving vaccinations.

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Scom,

Yep, ya have to kinda wonder what kind of 'head' they have to be stuck in such a dichotomy??!!??

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Dora Hates You