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ASHINGTON: A 12-year-old girl from Indiana, Adaline Deal, who is related to Vice-President JD Vance by marriage through his half-siblings, has been denied a spot on the heart transplant list due to her not being vaccinated against Covid-19 and the flu, according to a report by New York Post, citing her parents.
The report mentioned that Adaline, who was born with two rare heart conditions, has been under medical care at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for nearly a decade, and her family had hoped she would receive a transplant there. Her mother, Janeen Deal, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that they were aware from the beginning that Adaline would eventually need a transplant.
“But the hospital requires transplant patients to be vaccinated, and declined to make an exemption even when told it goes against the family’s religious beliefs as nondenominational Christians,” the parents said.
Vaccinations against preventable diseases are important for transplant recipients, as they are significantly more vulnerable to infections. For patients with severe conditions like Adaline, who has Ebstein’s anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, the risk of death from a COVID infection is much higher than in other patients.
