{"id":1771264,"date":"2022-12-10T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771264"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:48:32","slug":"duke-childrens-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duke-childrens-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Children\u2019s Hospital Denied 14-Year-Old Girl Kidney Transplant Over Covid Vaccine, Family Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fduke-childrens-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Duke University children\u2019s hospital is denying a young girl a kidney transplant because she has not received a COVID\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vaccine-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaccine<\/a>, her family says.<\/p>\n<p>Yulia Hicks, 14, has a genetic kidney disorder that requires a kidney transplant, but according to her family, Duke Children\u2019s Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, is refusing to put her on the kidney wait list because she is unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Yulia\u2019s adoptive parents recorded a phone call with Duke Health in which the family was told that doctors would not do the kidney transplant unless Yulia received a COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t require you to do anything. I can recommend these things, but if you don\u2019t follow our recommendations, then Yulia can\u2019t be a transplant candidate here,\u201d a Duke Health kidney specialist reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11523171\/North-Carolina-family-unvaccinated-14-year-old-search-medical-center-kidney-transplant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the Hicks in the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing unvaccinated to the CDC recommended vaccinations based on her age is part of that,\u201d the kidney specialist added.<\/p>\n<p>Her family says Yulia has already contracted COVID and recovered, but doctors told them Yulia\u2019s natural immunity was not enough, according to a recorded call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe virus has continued to mutate and so the natural immunity is not as good as if you had natural immunity plus vaccination,\u201d one doctor said in the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10499655\/Antibodies-unjabbed-Covid-survivors-stronger-protection-two-doses-study-claims.html\">studies<\/a> have shown that natural immunity is superior to the COVID vaccine. One recent study also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/news\/medical\/new-study-finds-organ-recipients-rejecting-transplant-after-receiving-covid-vaccine\/?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">suggested<\/a> that the COVID vaccine could be to blame for certain organ transplant\u00a0recipients rejecting their new organs.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted for comment, a representative for Duke Health initially told The Daily Wire that they would check on the situation but failed to provide a comment by the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The Hicks family has 11 children including Yulia, who they adopted from Ukraine in January 2021. Yulia stayed with two other U.S. families before the Hicks, who are working hard to give her a stable, loving home.<\/p>\n<p>Yulia\u2019s condition requires daily peritoneal dialysis, which her family has done with her at home every night for over a year. They say that they have been working with Duke for the last two years since her dialysis is through the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey tell us all the time she\u2019s a model patient,\u201d Hicks told The Daily Wire. \u201cWe do everything they tell us to do, really. The only thing we won\u2019t do is get this COVID vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we feel like it\u2019s kind of a power struggle because it\u2019s like, you told us it was a recommendation. Recommendation means I get to choose. But you\u2019re denying me because of your recommendation,\u201d Hicks added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Hicks appeared on Tucker Carlson\u2019s Fox News show and said they are hoping a medical center will come forward and offer to perform the transplant without the vaccination requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no sympathy whatsoever from any of them. It\u2019s just strong-arming us, just give her the vaccine and then you\u2019ll get the transplant,\u201d Hicks told Carlson.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson speaks with a mother whose daughter was denied a kidney transplant by Duke University Hospital because she hadn\u2019t been vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UQrv0UQAxz\">https:\/\/t.co\/UQrv0UQAxz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNzIycs8WU\">pic.twitter.com\/gNzIycs8WU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1601392115505717248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The family has also retained an attorney, but her mother said they cannot have Yulia\u2019s life hanging in the balance with litigation, so they are not sure what legal moves they will make.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks said that while their family no longer has faith in the doctors at Duke to perform Yulia\u2019s transplant, they still want the policy changed for others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just us that\u2019s facing this. We\u2019ve been given a microphone for whatever reason,\u201d Hicks told The Daily Wire. \u201cIt\u2019s not just for us. It\u2019s to change the policy so that other people don\u2019t suffer the same thing that we\u2019re suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hicks said the experience has taken an emotional toll on her because the doctors \u201cbully\u201d her more than they do her military husband. She now sends her husband with Yulia to attend most of their appointments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really try to shield our children a lot from it. We just don\u2019t want them to have to carry our burden,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re both veterans. We fought for freedom and we\u2019re not even able to experience it right now,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>The family says they do not have extra funds to travel out of state to another hospital for the kidney transplant, so they have set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givesendgo.com\/kidneyforyulia\">fundraiser<\/a> to help with the costs as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/christinehicks66.wixsite.com\/kidney-for-yulia-gra\/my-blog\">website<\/a> to share updates on Yulia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had an outpouring of help already. We\u2019re so grateful for people who have stepped forward,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke University children\u2019s hospital is denying a young girl a kidney transplant because she has not received a COVID\u00a0vaccine, her family says. Yulia Hicks, 14, has a genetic kidney disorder that requires a kidney transplant, but according to her family, Duke Children\u2019s Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, is refusing to put her on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1890701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7665,5560,4127,6202,7085,7662,3881,4665,3870,7664,7663,3954,6195],"class_list":["post-1771264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-14-year-old","tag-childrens","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-denied","tag-duke","tag-family","tag-girl","tag-hospital","tag-kidney","tag-transplant","tag-vaccine","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}