Ohio Hospital Denies New Heart for 12-Year-Old Relative of Vance, Says Family

Adaline Deal’s parents say Cincinnati Children’s Hospital requires the COVID-19 vaccine for transplant recipients but they oppose it on religious grounds.

The Deal family includes four biological children, three adoptive children, and parents Jeneen and Brayton Deal. Courtesy of the Deal family

Jeneen Deal said her 12-year-old daughter is being denied a life-saving heart transplant at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital because she didn’t take the flu and COVID-19 vaccinations.

Deal said that her daughter Adaline urgently needs surgery but the hospital won’t put her on the transplant list because she has not taken either injection due to the family’s religious beliefs.