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Originally Posted by Retiree
Not getting vaccinated against covid is self-abuse? Isn't it the other way around?  |
Their reasoning is, the immunosuppressants that a transplant patient has to take for the rest of their life, lowers the immune system so much that a covid infection would be very hard to fight. Same with the flu. And 18 months ago, the hospitals were full of dying covid patients. Their main priority is the survival of the organ for five years.
So if you are on immunosuppressants, then you are immuno-compromised and at a higher risk for covid, which was killing a lot of people and therefore a higher risk of dying along with their liver.
So yes, they considered not having the covid vaccine before transplant to be too risky.