Boston patient removed from heart-transplant list because he’s not vaccinated against COVID:...

Perfectly logical. You don't throw away needed organs.

Relevant paragraph from different article about the situation:

Dr. Arthur Caplan is Head of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He says being vaccinated is necessary for this type of procedure. “Post any transplant, kidney, heart whatever, your immune system is shut off,” Caplan said. “The flu could kill you, a cold could kill you, COVID could kill you. The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.”

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2022/01/24/covid-19-vaccine-heart-transplant-boston-brigham-womens/

For those who don't know about how transplants work, this is NOTHING NEW. At all. My daughter is 4 years post kidney transplant. She's 7 - so when she was 3 she got a new kidney after being on dialysis for 11 months. Before she started dialysis, she had to go through transplant evaluation like everyone else. I had to go with her to different classes, obviously, because she was 2. She was the youngest person in that room when they went over patient responsibilities. They have STRICT criteria for ANYONE to get a transplant. You have be fully vaccinated for as many vaccines as you can get at the time. If you smoke or drink you have to quit. Or they will deny you if you don't get vaccinated or quit those things because why? Because you're getting a precious gift if you're being evaluated to be put on the transplant list. You are essentially getting a gift after someone has lost a loved one and sometimes have had to make that decision in the worst moment of their life.

In fact, for my daughter, she got her 2nd MMR pre transplant because post she can never have live virus vaccines again. I'm exempt from smallpox unless I were to deploy again for 30 or more days because then I wouldn't be around her. When they suggested she get her 2nd MMR early I said ok.

Even for living donor testing it's strict. My mom got denied to even test because she's too old. My SIL they said no because a history of diabetes in her family. My ex MIL allegedly applied and they told her to lose 50 lbs first and come back but she never did.

If someone needs an organ transplant, things are serious. So why wouldn't you do everything you can to make sure you can get an organ? Also add in post transplant, you're on immunosuppressive drugs FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Your immune system is suppressed so your body won't reject the organ. Forever. That's why they want you vaccinated before transplant so you have as much protection as you can possibly get.

So all these articles I see about this where people get removed from the list or denied a transplant for refusing the covid vaccine - deal with it. That's life. They will reject or remove people all the time. If you get admitted to the hospital while listed, you can be inactivated on the list until you are discharged. That's how the process works people.