Air Force Veteran Forced to Choose Between Getting Vaccine or Dying

Hospitals appear so dead-set on saving people from COVID-19 they’re letting them die from other causes like organ failure.

A recent example of this unusual mindset involves Air Force veteran Chad Carswell. The 39-year-old was denied a life-saving operation by North Carolina hospital Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The Winston-Salem organization told Carswell he would not receive a transplant at that hospital unless he was vaccinated against COVID-19.

“They told me either take the vaccine or you’re going to die,” Carswell told “The Epoch Times”.

A call to Atrium Health for comment was not immediately returned.

Carswell recently publicized his experience of being turned away by the hospital for the desperately needed kidney transplant. He was attacked on social media over his refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Some commenters reportedly expressed a hope that he would die from kidney failure.

The Epoch Times reported almost as many people posted support for Carswell. Fortunately for the dying man, one of the people who learned of his plight was the coordinator at the Medical City Fort Worth Transplant Institute, in Texas. Carswell has since been placed on her facility’s candidate list for a transplant. The report noted the Texas hospital is now trying to find a donor match for Carswell, whose kidneys have slipped down to just 4 percent functionality while he searched for a hospital to accept him without a vaccine.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital refused in January to allow 31-year-old Bostonian David Ferguson a heart transplant unless he got vaccinated.

In October 2021, UCHealth told 56-year-old Colorado Springs resident Leilani Lutali she was getting kicked off the kidney transplant waiting list because she wouldn’t get a vaccine.

“Here I am, willing to be a direct donor to her. It does not affect any other patient on the transplant list,” Lutali’s kidney donor Jaimee Fougner told a Colorado CBS affiliate. “How can I sit here and allow them to murder my friend when I’ve got a perfectly good kidney and can save her life?”

Codie Samuelson has been waiting on a new kidney for almost four years, according to a “World” report. Vanderbilt University Medical Center reportedly removed her from its transplant waiting list last November because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.