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"Odds of survival have long been factored into prioritizing who will get donated organs. And requiring vaccinations against devastating infectious diseases is a
by sn9 5y ago
"Odds of survival have long been factored into prioritizing who will get donated organs. And requiring vaccinations against devastating infectious diseases is also standard. Organ recipients are already generally required to be vaccinated against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, and tetanus, among others diseases."
None of those diseases have high kill rates. Kill rates aren't the justification being used.
It's about maximizing success of the transplant. This is just one more vaccination in a list of vaccinations.
This isn't surprising to anyone remotely familiar with eligibility requirements for organ transplants. There are all sorts of choices a patient can make that would make them ineligible.
- perryizgr8 5y ago> None of those diseases have high kill rates. Hep A - 0.3% for adults ages 15 to 39, and 2.1% for adults ages 40 and old [1] Hep B - 14% [2] Influenza - 0.2% (calculated from stats on wikipedia) Tetanus - <15% with treatment, >25% without treatment [3] Covid - 1.4% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have a fatal outcome, while 98.6% recover [4] So no, most of those diseases have much higher kill rate than covid. Also, those vaccines have been proven over decades. Covid vaccines have barely been studied for a year. [1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/70180/WHO_IVB_10.01_eng.pdf https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/70180/WHO_I... [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24523214/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24523214/ [3] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000615.htm https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000615.htm [4] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...