Thought Experiment
- Patient diagnosed with lung cancer during the pandemic
- Patient required to get covid vaccine to get the transplant
- Patient believed this was unfairly coercive, and she was then removed from the transplant list
Responses
- Don’t put her on the list, as the covid virus is a higher priority than lung cancer at this moment
- The covid vaccines had a lot of misinformation, it is reasonable for her to refuse. Thus, it is wrong to exclude her from the list
- They want to give the organ to the person with the longest lifespan. She has a higher risk of dying due to being unvaccinated.