A Virginia man who wants a kidney transplant to outlive stated he would "fairly die" of kidney failure than get vaccinated towards COVID.

Shamgar Connors, 42, stated within the description of a video he uploaded on YouTube earlier this month that he's on dialysis each night time and his life is in danger, however the College of Virginia Well being System has denied him a transplant process as a result of he refuses to get the COVID vaccine.

Sufferers throughout the nation have had the identical expertise as Connors, as some hospitals have been denying transplants to unvaccinated folks, saying that sufferers who've been vaccinated have higher outcomes and decrease loss of life charges than unvaccinated sufferers.

Connors, who stated he has stage 5 kidney failure, may be heard within the video having a telephone dialog with an unnamed employees member from the hospital's transplant clinic who advised him that he has been positioned on the "inactive" transplant record, which suggests he is not going to be thought-about for a transplant as a result of he isn't vaccinated towards COVID.

The 42-year-old stated he would not need to get the vaccine as a result of he's involved about any potential unwanted side effects from it.

Through the telephone dialog, the hospital employees member requested Connors if he's keen to get the COVID vaccine so as to be "energetic" on the transplant record, to which he responded, "I might fairly die of kidney failure."

"I can respect folks's alternative to have the ability to CHOOSE to get some experimental drug if they need, however MANDATING that is absolute madness and anybody that helps these mandates is completely utterly insane," Connors wrote within the YouTube video description.

"I even advised the physician I lately had COVID and obtained over it so why would I want a vaxx now? Oh that is as a result of I might need had the Delta variant and now they're anxious about Omicron," he added.

Connors additionally stated that he tried to say a non secular exemption to keep away from getting vaccinated, and stated that the hospital did not "honor that." That declare is supported within the audio of the telephone name because the hospital consultant may be heard telling Connors the clinic is not going to contemplate a non secular exemption.

"If this would possibly not wake folks as much as this rip-off, I do not know what's going to," Connors wrote.

The center college instructor stated in an interview with Inside Version that he insists on not taking the vaccine no matter "what anybody says. I am not doing it."

Connors has two youngsters and is married to a nurse who additionally opposes COVID vaccines, in response to Inside Version. He stated that he's "preventing this battle not only for myself, however for everybody, even the individuals who disagree with me. As a result of what they do not perceive is as we speak it is me, tomorrow it is you."

Newsweek contacted the hospital for feedback however did not obtain a response earlier than publication. Nevertheless, in response to an announcement obtained by Charlottesville, Virginia's CBS 19 Information, a UVA Well being spokesperson stated that the demand for organs exceeds the availability and due to this fact each recipient is assessed whether or not they're a very good candidate for the transplant.

"Sufferers is probably not a candidate for a transplant if they've one other life-threatening illness or situation that may not enhance with a transplant," the spokesperson stated within the assertion, in response to the information outlet. "Transplant sufferers who've been immunized have higher outcomes and decrease mortality charges than these transplant sufferers who haven't obtained the vaccine."

Man say avoids COVID vaccine
A Virginia man lately stated he "would fairly die of kidney failure" than get the COVID vaccine, inflicting him to be eliminated fromt he energetic transplant record. Pictured, licensed Vocational Nurse Eloisa Flores prepares a dose of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles on December 15, 2021.Photograph by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP through Getty Photos

Related incidents the place people have been denied transplants for being unvaccinated have been reported nationwide as hospitals within the U.S. require a full vaccination towards COVID earlier than a process.

In Boston, a man has been faraway from the guts transplant record for rejecting the COVID vaccine. David Ferguson stated his 31-year-old son DJ is now not eligible for the transplant as a result of hospital vaccine mandate.

"It is type of towards his fundamental ideas; he would not imagine in it," Ferguson advised WBZ earlier this week. "It is a coverage they're implementing and so as a result of he will not get the shot, they took him off the record of a coronary heart transplant."

Additionally in Ohio, a mom was denied a liver transplant late final yr for refusing to get vaccinated. Michelle Vitullo, who has stage 4 liver most cancers, had her transplant surgical procedure scheduled for the top of September, however the Cleveland Clinic canceled the surgical procedure over the vaccine mandate.