No Jab, No Life: Senator Helps Unvaccinated Patient Search for Heart Transplant

A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Jan. 7, 2021. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

A senator is calling for donors to help an unvaccinated Melbourne mother receive a heart transplant from overseas after she was denied one locally due to her COVID-19 vaccination status.

Vicki Derderian is a mother of two from Melbourne, Australia, and has suffered a heart condition over the past eight years.