A hospital in Boston, Massachusetts removed a father from a potential heart transplant list this week because the patient refused to accept the covid vaccine.

“David Ferguson is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son DJ. He says the 31-year-old is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant,” reports CBS News Boston. “The family says he was at the front of the line to receive a transplant but because he has not received the COVID-19 vaccination he is no longer eligible according to hospital policy. And Ferguson says his son refuses to get the shot.”

“My son has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he’s been pushed to the limit,” said the patient’s father.

“It’s kind of against his basic principles, he doesn’t believe in it. It’s a policy they are enforcing and so because he won’t get the shot, they took him off the list of a heart transplant,” Ferguson added.

Read the full report here.