{"id":507965,"date":"2021-09-04T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=507965"},"modified":"2021-09-04T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T15:17:10","slug":"edmonton-hospital-threatens-withdrawal-of-life-saving-transplant-surgery-unless-patient-gets-covid-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=507965","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Hospital Threatens Withdrawal of Life-Saving Transplant Surgery Unless Patient Gets Covid Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a letter dated Aug. 9, the University of Alberta Hospital, located in Edmonton, informed Lewis that she cannot receive the lung transplant without getting the COVID-19 shot, according to JCCF. In a subsequent telephone conversation with a member of the hospital\u2019s Lung Transplant Program team on Sept. 2, Lewis was told that she is \u201cnumber two\u201d on the donor recipient list, and was again informed that she must be vaccinated in order to get the transplant, the JCCF added.<\/p>\n<p>In a recording of the phone conversation given to the JCCF, she was told by a doctor with the lung transplantation program that \u201call of our pre-transplant patients are going to be required to have the COVID vaccine,\u201d and that she would be taken off the donor list if she refuses to be vaccinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/edmonton-hospital-threatens-withdrawal-of-life-saving-transplant-surgery-unless-patient-gets-covid-shot_3980750.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2021-08-20&amp;mktids=6915e925258a10451cc2001be2c0d771&amp;est=JiiviOur8q%2FQgZjOWyt0Bj0aNcvPyHL97oNU1gOZghWsLUYfvYFUy2RrYAtuq7Hm\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/edmonton-hospital-threatens-withdrawal-of-life-saving-transplant-surgery-unless-patient-gets-covid-shot_3980750.html?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a letter dated Aug. 9, the University of Alberta Hospital, located in Edmonton, informed Lewis that she cannot receive the lung transplant without getting the COVID-19 shot, according to JCCF. In a subsequent telephone conversation with a member of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=507965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}