Hospital Won’t Put Child on Heart Transplant List Unless Parents Agree to COVID, Flu Shots
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital will not put a 12-year-old girl on its heart transplant list unless she takes the COVID-19 and flu vaccines, according to her family.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital will not place a 12-year-old girl on its heart transplant list because of her vaccination status, according to her family.
Adaline, the adopted daughter of Jeneen and Brayton Deal, has had two heart conditions — Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome — since birth. She has been receiving treatment for the condition at Cincinnati Children’s since she was adopted at age 4.
Jeneen, who is related by marriage to Vice President JD Vance’s half-siblings, told Children’s Health Defense (CHD) General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg that they knew since adopting Adaline that she would eventually need a heart transplant.
Now that she has grown, the Ebstein anomaly, a congenital heart defect that affects valve functioning and can lead to heart failure, has become severe.
“The right side of her heart is very sick,” Jeneen told Mack Rosenberg during an episode of “Good Morning, CHD.TV.” “It’s barely even pumping blood.”
The family had hoped to continue Adaline’s treatment at Cincinnati Children’s, which they consider the best hospital in the area, Jeneen said. However, the hospital refused to place her on the transplant list unless she took the COVID-19 and flu vaccines.
The hospital, which requires transplant patients to be vaccinated, declined to make an exemption after the family explained the vaccinations conflict with their religious beliefs as nondenominational Christians and their medical beliefs, Jeneen told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The hospital indicated it follows the guidelines from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jeneen said.
“They told us that we can basically find another hospital because they will not change their policy,” Jeneen said. “I’m terrified she’s going to die while we’re trying to fight this.”
Jeneen said the family’s insurance limits which hospitals they can go to and that Cincinnati Children’s is a great hospital, so they would prefer to stay there.
Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom (OAMF) which has issued a call to action for Adaline, said on its website that Adaline’s story is not an isolated one.
OAMF wrote:
“Families across Ohio, including the Donaldson family in Cleveland, have faced similar vaccine status discrimination. These tragic situations highlight a critical issue: Ohio’s legislature has repeatedly failed to pass legislation to protect families like Adaline’s from being denied care based on vaccine choices.”
OAMF President Stephanie Stock said in an interview that it is “astounding” that even members of the family of the vice president of the U.S. face vaccine status discrimination. It is proof, she said, that vaccine status discrimination can extend to everyone.
The organization is advocating for Ohio House Bill 319, which would end vaccine status discrimination in the state. After learning of Adaline’s case, OAMF plans to add a special provision to the bill to protect children.
The hospital did not make its transplant policy available to the Enquirer. Although the family’s doctor there reportedly told them the hospital’s vaccine requirement followed recommendations by the NIH, a spokesperson for the agency told the Enquirer that it does not make recommendations about vaccines for transplants.
Network for Hope, which works with transplant centers across the Midwest, told the Enquirer that transplant centers set their own vaccine requirements.
Cincinnati Children’s on Wednesday issued a statement responding to the controversy, the Enquirer reported. The statement did not directly mention Adaline’s case, but said organ transplants are very complicated and hearts available for transplants are rare.
“Our responsibility is to ensure that every donated organ is used in a way that maximizes successful outcomes for children in need,” it said, adding:
“Because children who receive a transplant will be immunosuppressed for the rest of their life, vaccines play a critical role in preventing or reducing the risk of life-threatening infections, especially in the first year. These decisions involve discussion between our providers and the patient’s family.”
Watch Jeneen Deal CHD.TV interview here:
isn't it a time for the next executive order to STOP any funding to all these DEATH facilities???
Here is where to contact this hospital and another hospital who is refusing yet another person a heart transplant unless they vaccinate: https://www.ohioamf.org/
Here is my letter:
I am writing to ask that you reconsider the requirement of covid and flu shots before Adaline's surgery.
As you must know, mrna shots such as these are known to negatively affect the heart. These shots effects are listed in the manufacturer's own literature as well as extensively covered in the FOIA releases by the FDA/Pfizer and Moderna. I read that you wanted to make certain that a donated heart didn't go to waste. That doesn't make any sense when the very products you require this young woman to take have a very high possibility of causing her to have myo or pericarditis. This medical rational is conterfactual to the known and admitted side effects of such injections.
Further, freedom of religion is covered under Federal law in the Civil Rights Act. Following the law isn't optional.
Your policy seems very oddly argued. Please bring your policy in line with known facts concerning mrna and the law.
Thank you for your time.
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So I am wondering if some kind of federal or other payments are going specifically to these hospitals. I learned from Mary Talley Bowden that Huston Methodist Hospital was the first to mandate covid shots, even prior to mandates by Biden. Knowing as we do, that hospitals took money to push the shots and other products such as Remdesivir, usually following a covid protocol likely to result in harm to patients, is some entity paying these hospitals to demand these shots?