Hospital Won’t Put Child on Heart Transplant List Unless Parents Agree to COVID, Flu Shots

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital will not place a 12-year-old girl on its heart transplant list because of her vaccination status, according to her family.

Adaline, the adopted daughter of Jeneen and Brayton Deal, has had two heart conditions — Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome — since birth. She has been receiving treatment for the condition at Cincinnati Children’s since she was adopted at age 4.

Jeneen, who is related by marriage to Vice President JD Vance’s half-siblings, told Children’s Health Defense (CHD) General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg that they knew since adopting Adaline that she would eventually need a heart transplant.

Now that she has grown, the Ebstein anomaly, a congenital heart defect that affects valve functioning and can lead to heart failure, has become severe.

“The right side of her heart is very sick,” Jeneen told Mack Rosenberg during an episode of “Good Morning, CHD.TV.” “It’s barely even pumping blood.”