India, Feb. 13 -- Adaline Deal, a 12-year-old girl from Indiana and a distant relative of Vice President JD Vance, has reportedly been denied a heart transplant because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and the flu. Her parents said Adaline was born with two rare heart conditions-Ebstein's anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. She has received treatment at Cincinnati Children's Hospital for nearly a decade with the hope of eventually receiving a heart transplant there. However, the hospital has refused to place her on the transplant list, as it requires all transplant patients to be vaccinated.

Her mother, Janeen Deal, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the hospital insisted on vaccination, despite the family's objections based...