California Hospital Refuses Transplant Surgery for Unvaccinated Woman With End-Stage Kidney Disease

Patient removed from waiting list until she receives an mRNA shot

Linda Garinger (L), who has end-stage kidney disease, and her daughter Emily Lewis read the letter from a hospital denying Garinger a kidney transplant operation because she won't get a COVID-19 vaccine. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Even on a good day, Linda Garinger of Ramona, California, thinks about dying.

Since she went on kidney dialysis two years ago, she’s had a heart attack and a cardiac episode associated with her thrice-weekly treatments.