According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a woman from Alberta who is suffering from a terminal illness was removed from an organ transplant list because she did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Despite obtaining a medical report proving that she has natural immunity, she was still denied access to the transplant. Sheila Annette Lewis has been legally challenging Alberta Health Services’ vaccine requirement for transplant candidates. On March 28, Lewis provided her doctors with a privately funded medical report that demonstrated her strong natural immunity to COVID-19; this report was issued by the Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation on March 24. The JCCF stated in a press release on April 18 that even after receiving the report, one of her transplant physicians informed her on April 3 that nothing had changed regarding vaccine requirements, and she would still have to receive the vaccines before being granted organ transplantation. The JCCF has sent a demand letter to Alberta Health Services, demanding that they recognize her natural immunity to COVID-19 and restore her to the high-priority transplant list immediately. Allison Pejovic, Lewis’s legal counsel, stated in the press release that there is no principled medical or scientific reason to continue denying Ms. Lewis a life-saving organ transplant. However, Lewis previously took AHS to court where she was unsuccessful at both the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and the Alberta Court of Appeals in 2022. These courts found that COVID-19 vaccine policies developed by AHS and other defendants are not protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the Alberta Bill of Rights. Lewis has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada, but it has not decided whether to hear the case yet.