She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?

[Mary Wilson]

Heidi Ferrer’s family feared her organs were unsafe. The case points to gaps in protocols for organ donation amid the pandemic.

Published Nov. 7, 2021
Updated Nov. 8, 2021, 3:08 p.m. ET
By Roni Caryn Rabin

Covid-19 ravaged Heidi Ferrer’s body and soul for over a year, and in May the “Dawson’s Creek” screenwriter killed herself in Los Angeles. She had lost all hope.

... Her husband, Nick Guthe, a writer and director, wanted to donate her body to science. But the hospital said it was not his decision to make because Ms. Ferrer, 50, had signed up to be an organ donor. So specialists recovered several organs from the body before disconnecting her from a ventilator.

... The case highlights an urgent debate among medical professionals about whether the organs of people who survived Covid, and even of those who died with the illness, are really safe and healthy enough to be transplanted.

Potential donors are routinely screened now for coronavirus infections before their organs are removed. Generally, the organs are considered safe for transplantation if the test is negative, even if the donor has recovered from Covid. But there is no universally accepted set of recommendations regarding when organs can be safely recovered from virus-positive bodies and transplanted to patients in need.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/health/covid-organ-transplants.html

 

[Emily]

Some people question the 'long COVID' experience.
https://spectator.org/long-covid-myth/

Finally, what if you knew that far from doing sufferers a favor by misclassifying their symptoms we’re actually dooming them to perhaps a lifetime of suffering because just as there’s no cure to the above somatoform diseases there will never be a cure to “Long COVID,” leaving these people forever in despair sometimes, as with Dawson’s Creek writer Heidi Ferrer who took her own life in May after what her husband called “an unremitting battle with long-haul COVID-19.” She was 50 years old.

Okay, stop right now for a very important explanation. Psychogenic illnesses or somatoform diseases do not mean “it’s all in your head.” Mass psychogenic illness in schools has been documented for the last half millennium, is very common, and often accompanied by vomiting. The vomit is quite real. Psychogenic-related heart disease is well-documented. Yes, people do die of a “broken heart.” Heidi Ferrer is truly dead. “Psychogenic” merely refers to a mental origin, an “abnormal state in which psychologic processes resulting in physiologic reactions are believed to play a prominent role.” That which causes psychogenic illness, whether mass or individual, is called a “nocebo” or the opposite of a placebo.

With “Long COVID” the nocebo is anybody and everybody who treats it as something other than mass psychogenic illness, whether it’s the clickbait media or Fauci.

However, some vaccine injured report symptoms similar to long Covid sufferers. They, unlike long Covid cases, are ignored by the media and much of the health care world. There are suicides reported in that group, too. So possibly the spike protein is a problem for a subset of people, no matter how it is introduced to the body.

 

[sharon sanders]

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