Georgia House Passes Bill Prohibiting Vax Bias Against Transplant Candidates

The NIH says that 36 percent of organ transplant centers require patients to have had COVID shots in order to be placed on a waiting list.

Dane Donaldson (R) with his wife Jenn and sons Ryder (C) and Tanner, 9 years old at the time, when the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital denied him a kidney transplant from his father in 2022. Courtesy of Dane Donaldson

With the support of two Democrats, The Republican-led Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill that would prohibit health-care providers from discriminating against organ transplant list patients  based on their COVID-19 vaccine status.

HB576, which passed by a 98–71 vote, comes after years of heart-rending stories from around the United States about unvaccinated patients who were denied transplants.