Champions like @NickGuthe will ensure that Covid cleans up the organ donation system like HIV for the blood industry.
🙏 @RoniNYTimes & @nytimes for carrying out Nick’s promise to @GirltoMom to use her story to save others. nytimes.com/2021/11/07/hea…
🙏 @RoniNYTimes & @nytimes for carrying out Nick’s promise to @GirltoMom to use her story to save others. nytimes.com/2021/11/07/hea…
“If a deceased donor may have had long Covid and tested negative for Covid, however, the organs would be taken, Dr. Kumar said: “If we start turning down everyone who has had Covid in the past, we’d be turning down a lot of organs.”
“Before she died, Ms. Ferrer chronicled her ordeal in meticulous notes left on her phone: “Covid toes” that made her feet so sore she could not walk. A tremor that made her body shake violently. Pain in every limb. Relentless insomnia and despair.”
“Her heart raced. Her blood sugar levels fluctuated. Worst of all, she couldn’t think straight.
The hospital thought she would be a suitable donor anyway.”
The hospital thought she would be a suitable donor anyway.”
Mr. Guthe said he had promised her that he would educate people about the burden of long Covid.
Now he has another mission.
“Heidi was a very giving person, but she would not have wanted this,” he said.
“We need to create guidelines for what is safe and what isn’t.”
/end
Now he has another mission.
“Heidi was a very giving person, but she would not have wanted this,” he said.
“We need to create guidelines for what is safe and what isn’t.”
/end
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