A 55-year-old from Belluno suffering from a serious lung disease was excluded from the list of candidates for organ transplantation because it was deemed "unsuitable" by the medical team, by virtue of his "paranoid ideas" about Covid.
The doctors of the Padua hospital, in the light of "his conspiratorial beliefs about the vaccine", feared "that the patient might not adhere to the therapies necessary to make the transplant effective".
The man has never accepted the anti-Covid vaccine, because it would be 'experimental'.
But Covid 19 is a disease that affects precisely these organs and performing a lung transplant on an unvaccinated, who has a much higher chance of death than an immunized, means for doctors "