The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of an Alberta woman who was unwilling to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to get a life-saving organ transplant.
Annette Lewis was diagnosed with a terminal disease in 2018 and was told she would not survive unless she received an organ transplant.
In 2020, she was placed on a wait list for an Edmonton-based transplant program, but was informed a year later she would need to get the COVID-19 vaccine to receive the organ. Lewis refused to get the vaccine.
Lewis said taking the vaccine would offend her conscience and argued the requirement
