Canadians have refused blood for themselves, or a child, because of unfounded fears of blood 'tainted' by COVID mRNA vaccines
The mRNA vaccines contain genetic material used to prompt cells to make a protein, or a piece of a protein, that triggers an immune response. There’s no reason why blood would become a mechanism for passively causing that response in someone else, doctors have said.
As well, given the delays from the time of the donation, to the time a blood product is transfused — several days, to weeks later — “it’s highly unlikely there would be anything present” in the donor blood, Sidhu said. “Asking for unvaccinated blood would count as demand for treatment unsupported by medical standards, and so there is no moral obligation for providers to put in the additional effort to meet the parents’ request,” they write, in a piece forThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.These cases have similarities to cases of patients refusing lifesaving treatment for their children that have been argued in the past.
We can’t normalize requests for unvaccinated blood, Goldenberg said. “That’s just not a reasonable ask.” There’s also no scientific justification for doing so, she said. “There’s nothing there.” “It seems to me that that has a very clear correlation with people not wanting the blood of people that have received mRNA in their body or having a transfusion for your kid.”
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