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BEERandWEED posted...

You're also assuming they are going to contract covid while in recovery, which is highly unlikely.

Why would that be highly unlikely? She's going to be immunocompromised for the rest of her life. The dosage is typically lowed after 6-12 months, once the greatest risk of rejection has passed, but she will need to keep taking immunosuppressing drugs to keep the transplanted organ stable. This is not a matter of her being immunosuppresed after a couple weeks in a protected hospital environment where she is unlikely to be exposed to Covid, this is forever. She'll be going out into the world and living her life, and because she's both unvaccinated and severely immunocompromised, there's a very high chance that Covid will kill her.

BEERandWEED posted...

In this story, the donor volunteered and is a match and is willing to accept to the risk to give this woman her kidney. There is no need to bring up other people who need a kidney.

That doesn't mean the doctors are going to be willing to impose the associated risks (the donor must also be immunosuppressed prior to the donation, to say nothing of the normal risks of donation) when there's a considerable chance that there will be no long-term benefit.

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