A North Carolina family seeks help after Duke University Hospital denied them a kidney transplant because their 14-year-old adopted daughter had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Julia Hicks was adopted from Ukraine in January 2021 by Lee and Chrissy Hicks. They knew she had Senior Loken Syndrome, a rare genetic kidney disease.
But on Nov. 11, she was told she was ineligible to be on Duke’s waiting list because she had not been vaccinated against COVID.
“There is absolutely no sympathy from any of them,” said Chrissie Hicks.
“It’s just arming us so hard. If we vaccinate her, she can get a transplant.”
She contacted an attorney, but was looking for an alternative medical center, stating, “I can’t let her life hang on the balance with the lawsuit.”
According to the Hicks, Yuria had been previously infected, but that was not enough for hospitals, and CDC guidelines mandate vaccination for transplant patients.
“They said the CDC’s recommendations were updated at the end of October, that they had to follow them, and that if she didn’t get the vaccine, she wouldn’t be able to get a transplant at Duke,” said Chrissy Hicks. I spoke. to Tucker Carlson on Friday night.
Chrissy Hicks, the mother of 14-year-old Yulia, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Friday night to ask for help.
“We’ve been dealing with these doctors at Duke for at least two years because our dialysis is also done through Duke,” she explained.
“I’ll do it at home for Yuria.
“But the two doctors who denied us because of the COVID vaccine met with them for an eight-hour scrutiny.
“Then we pushed back a bit.
“They put her before a committee on November 10th.
“She was denied simply because of the vaccine, so we decided to have a conference call and get actual evidence that they were telling us this.”
Carlson called the hospital’s decision “clearly irrational and viciously cruel.”
Chrissy Hicks recorded a phone call and the hospital explained why Yulia was denied a transplant.
“I can’t ask you to do anything,” says the woman. “I can recommend these things.
“However, Julia cannot be a candidate for a transplant here if she does not follow our recommendations.
“Based on a fifth, non-continuous adherence to medical dialysis treatment or medical recommendations, and a tenth, medical risk factors that make surgery dangerous.
“And that’s part of it, based on her age, she doesn’t have the CDC-recommended vaccinations.”
Julia Hicks (left) is a 14-year-old orphan rescued from Ukraine.She was denied a kidney transplant to save her life because her parents wouldn’t let her get her vaccinations
Julia Hicks was adopted by Lee and Chrissie Hicks in January 2021, joining her extended family
Hospital staff lashed out when the Hicks, devout Roman Catholics with 11 children, three of whom were adopted, claimed that Julia had already contracted COVID and was under protection. .
“The virus keeps mutating,” the man tells them.
“In other words, innate immunity is not as good as innate immunity plus vaccination.”
Chrissy Hicks told Carlson that the hospital staff was unsympathetic and did not express her condolences for not being able to help Julia.
Hospital staff lashed out when the Hicks, devout Roman Catholics with 11 children, three of whom were adopted, claimed that Julia had already contracted COVID and was under protection. .
The mother of 11 children said she hoped another medical center would agree to help Yulia
Carlson said it was “so wicked and hard to digest.”
The North Carolina mother said she has hired a lawyer, but for the time being hopes “medical centers will come forward and let them know they’re going to do the transplant without a vaccine.”
“We hired a lawyer. His name is Mike Yoder,” she said.
“We can’t let her life hang in balance with the lawsuit.
“So I hope that by appearing on your show, the medical center will come forward and let us know that they will be performing transplants without vaccines.
‘We hope they can help us out.
“We have created a website called yuliagrace.com. If you have a medical center that can help, please contact them.
‘We also created – we have 11 children in our family. It is financially impossible to go out of state to do this. Go to Giftsendgo.com.
“There’s already an outpouring of help. Thank you to those who have stepped forward,” she said.
“The bottom line is that this is bigger than Yuria, many families are in situations like Yuria’s, and we want to help other families.
“A line was drawn in the sand.
“If we don’t stand up for medical freedom now, we can’t do it soon.”
Julia’s case is not isolated.
Earlier this year, 31-year-old Boston man DJ Ferguson was denied a heart transplant after refusing to be vaccinated against COVID.
A few weeks later, Chad Carswell, 38, a North Carolina man, said he would rather die than be forced to take a COVID-jab to get a much-needed kidney transplant.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptiste, the hospital where Carswell hoped to receive the transplant, declined to comment on his case, but a spokesperson said the hospital’s vaccine policy is in line with COVID-19. It said it aims to protect transplant patients who are at high risk of serious illness from the disease.
Last year, the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Colorado Hospital refused organ transplants to unvaccinated recipients.
Individual centers establish their own policies, but there are some common practices. Hospitals usually require transplant candidates to quit smoking, and transplant recipients generally must undergo a psychosocial evaluation.
You will often need to be vaccinated against hepatitis B, get an annual flu shot, and demonstrate immunity to measles.
