If you find this as appalling as I do, please take a look at your organ donation status.
If you are registered as an organ donor, research where your organs are likely to go if something happens to you and what their policy is on requiring COVID vaccination. If they turn away people who won't get the vax or won't give you a definite answer, consider changing your organ donation status to "no".
Perhaps even more importantly, contact the hospital responsible and tell them that you changed your status and why you did so. Make it clear that you aren't doing this out of spite and that you would like to remain a donor, but that you find the idea that they would use your organs in this manner reprehensible.
If you are not a donor but would like to be one, consider doing the same but explaining that you will change your status only if they drop the COVID vax requirement.
Just curious, do you know if they got the heart back afterwards? Specifically, does the hospital claim ownership of donated organs even after implantation? Or does the new host need to apply for donor status?
I do not know. There have been such cases, including hearts, but I didn't read anything one way or the other about whether his was one of them.
All good. It's interesting that there could be any such cases. It drastically alters the incentive structures behind the organ donor system if there are situations where new hosts get no choice in having their donated organs taken back.