JD Vance vows to help 12-year-old relative after shes denied heart transplant because shes unvaccinated: report

Vice President JD Vance is stepping in to help his 12-year-old relative who needs a heart transplant but was denied the lifesaving operation in Ohio because she’s not vaccinated against COVID-19 or the flu, according to a report.Adaline Deal — who was born in China and adopted when she was four — was diagnosed at birth with two rare heart conditions, Ebstein’s anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.Trump’s running mate told the Daily Mail he recently learned about Adaline Deal’s medical situation and is looking into ways to help out his family member.“I guess it’s been circulating on social media, but I was made aware of a couple days ago, and we’re trying to dig in and trying to help, obviously, as much as possible,” Vance said, according to the publication.“It is a distant relative, but somebody I care about.

So we’re trying to figure out exactly what’s going on,” he added.The preteen is related to Vance through her adoptive brother Jacob Deal, who is married to the vice president’s half-sister, Chelsea.As she has gotten older her heart couldn’t sustain her larger body, which led to her being diagnosed with heart failure in January, her mother wrote on Facebook.Jeneen Deal praised Vance’s commitment to helping her daughter and hoped the Trump administration could push Congress to pass a bill to protect unvaccinated Americans from discrimination in hospitals, according to the Daily Mail.“That’s so awesome… like so hopeful that he knows about it, and that he’s aware of it,” she told the outlet.Ebstein’s anomaly is a congenital defect in which the valve separating the top and bottom of the heart does not form correctly.Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome creates an extra electrical pathway that causes a rapid heartbeat.Since arriving in America, Adaline has received on-and-off treatment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for nearly a decade and the family had hoped the Ohio hospital would perform the transplant.The fami...