Originally posted by: Fish Killer
Originally posted by: follydude
The hypocracy continues as Dotards think that not getting vaxxed is "freedom", but when they get sick, they want to be in the front of the line and get lung transplants and other critical care.
...lung transplants?
LUNG TRANSPLANTS?!?!
Wow...just wow!
Yes, and why should some ignoramus who was given the opportunity to inoculate himself with a free and viable preventative vaccine be considered for a last-resort lung transplant when someone - who thru no fault of their own - was dealt a potentially fatal respiratory disease?
Back of the line, Dotard.
Once rare, lung transplants for COVID-19 patients are rising quickly
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/28...nts-are-rising-quickly
About one in 10 lung transplants in the United States now go to COVID-19 patients, according to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS.
The trend is raising questions about the ethics of allocating a scarce resource to people who have chosen not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
"They are accumulating on a steady basis. So it's very much a real thing," says David Klassen, chief medical officer for UNOS.
"If there were more lungs available for transplants, I believe the numbers would be greater than they are," he says.
In all, 238 people across the country have received lung transplants due to COVID-19 since the first such operations were tracked in August of 2020, according to the latest UNOS figures from October of this year.
Lung transplants for COVID patients rose tenfold between the first year of the pandemic and 2021, according to UNOS data, which also shows transplants for other top lung diseases, like emphysema, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary fibrosis, are down compared to prior years.
"When somebody contracts such severe COVID that they need a lung transplant, and they got it refusing to get a vaccine, it's a really ethical dilemma," says Mulligan. "How can they just jump in and take a lung away from somebody who's sick, but has been doing the best they can to take care of themselves and avoid getting COVID?"
Furthermore, there should be zero ethical dilemma about prioritizing care in emergency rooms and in intensive care units for those who have done the right thing and become vaccinated. Those who rejected the vaccine. Back of the line.
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