"“We have a fair amount of data showing the negative consequences of COVID following a transplant,” Dr. Kapil Saharia, MPH, an assistant professor at the Institute of Human Virology and the chief of Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases Service at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told Healthline.

“Patients who have received a transplanted organ are at significant risk from COVID-19,” said Dan Weaver, a spokesperson for the University of Colorado Hospital, the organ transplant center that denied the woman’s surgery. “Should they become infected, they are at particularly high risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death.”

They are also, he told Healthline, at higher risk for organ rejection if unvaccinated.

That means, when you look at what’s been asked of recipients in the past and what is being asked now, experts say there are several reasons, new and old, to attach requirements to a potential transplant."

"“We have a fair amount of data showing the negative consequences of COVID following a transplant,” Dr. Kapil Saharia, MPH, an assistant professor at the Institute of Human Virology and the chief of Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases Service at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told Healthline.

“Patients who have received a transplanted organ are at significant risk from COVID-19,” said Dan Weaver, a spokesperson for the University of Colorado Hospital, the organ transplant center that denied the woman’s surgery. “Should they become infected, they are at particularly high risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death.”

They are also, he told Healthline, at higher risk for organ rejection if unvaccinated.

That means, when you look at what’s been asked of recipients in the past and what is being asked now, experts say there are several reasons, new and old, to attach requirements to a potential transplant."