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An unvaccinated North Carolina man who needs a life-saving kidney transplant – and has been offered an organ by 100 people – has been denied the surgery by doctors because he refuses to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Chad Carswell, 38, strongly believes that getting the vaccine should be a choice and doesn’t think it’s very effective in preventing infection.
‘I’ve had COVD twice so I’ve developed natural antibodies,’ the Air Force veteran told DailyMail.com on Sunday when asked about his reasons for refusing the shot.
Carswell has had six heart attacks and is a double amputee. His kidney is operating at four percent capacity and he undergoes dialysis – a process that removes toxins from the blood, typically removed by healthy kidneys – three times a week.
About 100 people have offered to donate a kidney to him, he said, but he can’t get a transplant at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, which requires transplant candidates to be vaccinated because they are at high risk for severe illness.
‘Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s policy follows the current standard of care in the United States, which is to vaccinate all patients on waiting lists or being evaluated for transplant,’ the hospital said in a statement.
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