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# When COVID patients get new lungs, sould vaccine status matter?
- URL: https://werd.io/when-covid-patients-get-new-lungs-sould-vaccine-status-matter/
- Published: 2021-12-01T23:06:24.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-01T23:06:24.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"About one in 10 lung transplants in the United States now go to COVID-19 patients, according to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS. The trend is raising questions about the ethics of allocating a scarce resource to people who have chosen not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus." Healthcare should save everybody's life, regardless of choices. But this is such a frustrating trend.

\[[Link](https://www.npr.org/2021/11/28/1058988220/once-rare-lung-transplants-for-covid-19-patients-are-rising-quickly?utm%5Fcampaign=npr&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=facebook.com&utm%5Fterm=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR2ESSaiqAzaSC3JGm%5FkniA4zLegYICD6P2-cFWeklPyBgdXQXXHoeOAYus)\]