Vaccine Transplant Policy Should Be Changed, Lawyers Say After Woman’s Death

Vaccine Transplant Policy Should Be Changed, Lawyers Say After Woman’s Death
Alberta resident Sheila Annette Lewis. Courtesy of Sheila A. Lewis
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Some legal experts say there is no reason governments cant make changes that would allow organ transplants for people who decline to take a COVID-19 vaccine.

Last week saw the death of Sheila Annette Lewis, an Alberta women who had been in a long-running legal battle with Alberta Health Services over her vaccination status. She needed a life-saving organ transplant but refused to get a COVID vaccine, which is a requirement to receive a transplant in her province.

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