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To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That is the question.

Transplants | Last Active: Jun 28, 2021 | Replies (313)

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@contentandwell

@cmael What hospital is your transplant team at? I am wondering because I have heard nothing yet from my hospital, Mass General, and I really want to get this vaccine. As I have heard many transplant teams have said, the side effects of the virus will be much less serious than the potential side-effects of the vaccine.

Seriously, look at how many people have died from COVID already. It's on the rise everywhere in this country, and I read that in CA it's so bad that ambulance companies have been told that patients who they believe have little chance of survival should not be brought to the hospital! So, the ambulance personnel are making that life or death decision? That just does not seem right to me.

To paraphrase the older gentleman in England who got the vaccine, "I've come this far, I don't want to die from Covid", and it is rampant everywhere now due to people not respecting the no-travel advice over the holidays.
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@contentandwell, I have a thought (okay, a question). Have you contacted your transplant team? Why wait to hear from them?

I had my transplant at Mayo Rochester. That’s who I contacted for answers. Our daughter, my donor, was able to get her vaccine today. The place she works at was allocated 30 doses. She was offered one because they know that she spends a lot of time with me and my husband, who has dementia and helps out.