Re:Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transp...
by perryizgr8 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:25AM
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> 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_I...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24523214/
[3] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000615.htm
[4] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...
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.