Anti-Vaxxers Protest Vaccine Mandate By Boycotting Organ Donor List

The hashtag #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore is at the moment trending on Twitter as anti-vaxxers have pulled their names from the life-saving register in protest of a vaccine mandate for transplants.

Queensland Well being has confirmed on Tuesday that sufferers might want to have “a minimal requirement of two doses of an authorised COVID-19 vaccine previous to receiving a kidney, lung or coronary heart transplant.”

In response to authorities, this mandate is in place as a result of individuals who want organ transplants have a very weakened immune system and are subsequently at a better threat. That is in step with the nationwide requirements on transplants, which requires recipients to be updated with all vaccines, not simply COVID.

“Queensland follows nationwide and worldwide practices relating to transplantation and vaccination protocols,” Queensland Well being stated in a press release supplied to 7News. “The protection and wellbeing of all our sufferers is our primary precedence.”

After receiving a transplant, recipients are extraordinarily immunocompromised as their physique tries to regulate to having a international organ of their physique, which implies it’s necessary to be vaccinated previous to the transplant.

“That’s the reason the Queensland Kidney Transplant Service has endorsed a minimal requirement of two doses of an authorised COVID-19 vaccine previous to receiving a kidney, lung or coronary heart transplant,” Queensland Well being stated. “Previous to transplant and as per regular course of, the recipient should guarantee all of their vaccinations are updated.

“The COVID-19 vaccination isn’t any totally different.”

In response to the information, anti-vaxxers have flooded the hashtag #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore with screenshots of them eradicating themselves from the nationwide organ donor registry. “Simply modified my standing to not longer an organ donor, and you’ll overlook about my valuable unvaxed Blood, plasma,” one wrote.

“Right here you go @AnnastaciaMP #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore I gained’t take part in a system that discrminates!” one other added.

Fortunately, the silver lining to the #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore hashtag is that it has prompted numerous Australians to verify or signal as much as be an organ donor.

Thanks very a lot to the #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore crowd for reminding me to lastly replace my standing and register as an organ donor.

— Connor Flake Farrell (@ConnorEFMG) December 7, 2021

#NotAnOrganDonorAnymore HI FOLKS! If this hashtag has made you are feeling like registering as an organ donor please use this hyperlink!https://t.co/ZrLXa18hJN

— Andrew Jones (AZ Vaxxed) (@AndrewJ31046657) December 7, 2021

Due to anti-vaxxer idiots, I came upon I wasn’t an organ donor and have signed up (thought I used to be, and VERY glad I double checked now). Took me lower than 2 minutes on @myGovau #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore pic.twitter.com/kHrXunLtuK

— Jonathan Brown (JB) (@JB_AU) December 7, 2021

Beneath the present coverage, which isn’t up for overview till February subsequent yr, sufferers who refuse the vaccine can be ineligible for a transplant. Because it at the moment stands, 78.45 p.c of Queenslanders are totally vaccinated, with 87.three p.c receiving their first jab to date.