12-Year-Old Girl Can't Get Transplant Due To Covid Vaccine Status

12-Year-Old Girl Can’t Get Transplant Due To Covid Vaccine Status

US Rep Mike Rulli (R-OH) joins Tony Katz to talk about the bill he's sponsoring with Rep Erin Houchin (R-IN) to stop hospitals from doing this.

Tony Katz:

It was a very odd and interesting story almost one that was unbelievable that there was this this girl, this child who was denied care, needed a heart transplant, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Cincinnati, OH, but couldn’t get the heart transplant because she had never had a COVID vaccine. Well, she didn’t have the COVID vaccine because she had the heart issues. She was adopted from China at the age of four. Well, here she is in need of this heart transplant and the hospital won’t give it. It is a story that is purely maddening. Representative Michael Ruley joins me right now. He represents the 6th District of Ohio. He has a piece of legislation out with Congresswoman Aaron Houchen of the 9th District of Indiana to address this. Now, this isn’t your district. You’re on the Far East side of Ohio, bordering Pennsylvania, but this is but this is a this is a crazy story about what’s happening in the medical world. And as you described it on Fox News the other day, this isn’t the first time this has happened. You know, it’s not. And it really pulls out your heartstrings.

Representative Mike Rulli:

You know, I have a very close family member that had a double lung transplant. So, when I look at the haters online that are trying to say I don’t know anything about organ transplants, they couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s a rigorous procedure…. So, they went through the whole two to three years of getting her on the transplant list, doing all these tests, and they test you for everything. Make sure you don’t have cancer. Make sure you have good. Make sure you have all these different things so you could support that organ. Now with her in particular, at the very final stage, Tony, they noticed that one box wasn’t checked and that was the COVID vaccine box. And that was enough to knock her right off the list.