Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston says its policy won’t allow DJ Ferguson to have the surgery since not being vaccinated seriously hurts its chances for success and his long-term outlook.
Summary
- A Boston hospital says it won’t consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports.
- DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant.
- And David Ferguson says his son simply won’t.
- click to expand"It’s kind of against his basic principles — he doesn’t believe in it," David Ferguson says.
- “It’s a policy they are enforcing and so, because he won’t get the shot, they took him off the list (for) a heart transplant.”