Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, associate director of the Center for Bioethics, director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program, and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association comments on “high-functioning depression”.
Dr. Robert Truog, a professor of medical ethics, anesthesia and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director for its Center for Bioethics, said that decisions like this should not be interpreted as punishment for those who choose not to receive the COVID-19 — or any other — required vaccination, but instead as a commitment to the organ transplant’s success.