Alaska Man Misses Heart Transplant Due To Winter Storm



Patrick Holland is battling congestive heart failure and needed to catch a flight from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Seattle for a transplant, but due to the multiple flight cancellations at Sea-Tac Airport, Holland’s heart went to another person. KING’s Julie Calhoun reports.

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17 comments

  1. His family gets $29,000 from the state from the oil dividend, which is about $3200 per man, woman and child in Alaska. That should help out. You get it every year, though the amount varies.

  2. Use military helicopter, military plane, kardashian private jet, i hate this world so much because this kind of things happens all day. From a mexican man i wish the best to Alaska man in the next months ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤spread this story, tell this story to more people know and help him

  3. 😮 I’m so sorry mom😔

  4. They saw he didn't take that booster medicine that's what! Just like that little girl they denied for her transplant!! Yall better go take that booster medicine!!

  5. If he's in alaska, the american storm has nothing to do with him.

  6. well………………………

  7. Sad but always will be another chance…
    My husband waited two years for his heart. .

  8. U must have took the vaccines

  9. Maybe he should have stayed in Seattle when he heard about the storm.

  10. Alaska is a wild place. You can get your leg bit off by a bear and if you’re far enough out its a days wait till the plane shows up and a days flight back.

  11. What if they used a fraction of the money we sent to Ukraine for Alaska's infrastructure.

  12. MS-NBC is entirely ignoring the illegal invasion disaster at our Texas-Mexican border to report on this crap?

    Better learn to speak Spanish, because America's new welfare recipients are coming your way.

  13. Now report on Duke University denying an organ transplant to a 14 year old adopted girl because she isn’t vaccinated.

    Where’s the video of leftists literally denying a lifesaving medical treatment to a 14 year old girl

  14. Wow the average person gets really screwed in Joe Biden's America

  15. Oh my god. Such a disaster. It’s no ones fault but so sad.