JD Vance’s relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status

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JD Vance’s relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status

A relative of Vice President

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says an Ohio hospital has refused to put her 12-year-old daughter on its

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waiting list over her vaccine status.

Jeneen Deal, a mom-of-12 from Indiana who is related to Vance’s half-siblings through marriage, adopted Adaline from China as a 4-year-old knowing the little girl had two heart conditions, Ebstein’s anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, that meant she would one day require a transplant.

The girl has been receiving treatment from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, a leader in pediatric organ transplantation, for almost a decade.

The facility requires that heart transplant patients receive vaccinations for

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and flu as recipients are at much higher risk of infection. Deal said Adaline’s doctor confirmed to the family that she was in heart failure on January 17.

“My heart’s getting sick,” Adaline Deal told

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. “I get tired. My legs get [too] tired to stand.”

Deal and her husband Brayton, who are both members of a non-denominational Christian church, said that the

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conflict with their religious and medical beliefs and that they would not be willing to inoculate their daughter.

The pair have broadcast both their faith and vaccine-skepticism in posts on their

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pages.

The parents made their decision after “the Holy Spirit put it on our hearts,” the mom told The Cincinnati Enquirer. The hospital, they say, would not honor their beliefs.

“The heart failure team told me they won’t put her on the list unless we give her the Covid shot and the flu shot. I was like u would let her die if I refuse,” the mom wrote in a

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post on January 27. “That’s their policy she said. How nuts is that!”

The couple is now considering taking Adaline to a different transplant center that won’t require her to be vaccinated. In the meantime, the Deals have crowdfunded more than $57,000 of their $100,000 goal after setting up a

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page to help to pay for the transplant.

Deal said that people had already judged her as a “bad parent” and called her to make an exception so the hospital could put her on the transplant list.

“Yes, I’ve seen that they are already. But I just know I’m following our heart and what I feel is good for her. And nothing should be forced on us. I mean, it’s our God-given right. We can say no,” she told Local 12.

On Wednesday, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital released a statement on their transplant evaluations and immunization considerations.

“Because children who receive a transplant will be immunosuppressed for the rest of their life, vaccines play a critical role in preventing or reducing the risk of life-threatening infections, especially in the first year,” it said. “These decisions involve discussion between our providers and the patient’s family.”

Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who oversee transplant lists in the U.S., have not mandated

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, leaving it up to hospitals to decide their policies.

The American Society of Transplant Surgeons agrees with the hospital’s vaccination policy for patients in need of an organ transplant.

“Transplant candidates and recipients frequently interact with other at-risk individuals in the hospital. The ASTS recommend routine vaccination for all organ recipients and for those on the waitlist,” it said in a position statement on its website.

The Independent has contacted the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the Deals for more information.

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