So this is something you won't hear on the mainstream news:
Yup, nothing to see here except a terminally-ill girl who is being denied lifesaving care because she won't take a shot that doesn't protect her against a virus that's so low in lethality to her age group that she's in more danger in a parked car.
At 14, Yulia Hicks has already had more than her share of bad luck.
Brought from Ukraine to the United States in December 2018, she was given up by her first two adoptive families before Chrissy and Lee Hicks adopted her in 2021. She suffers from Senior Loken Syndrome, a genetic condition that is destroying her kidneys and eyes and will soon force her to have a kidney transplant.
Now Yulia is facing another crisis, this one seemingly caused by her own physicians.
Doctors at Duke University, where Yulia has been awaiting a kidney transplant, have told her parents they will not give her a new kidney unless she is vaccinated against Covid - even though Yulia has already had and recovered from Covid.
I said it in the headline, but I'll say it again:
FREAKING.
EVIL.
More:
To pressure Chrissy and Lee into giving Yulia a Covid shot, the physicians have overestimated the efficacy of the jabs. On a Nov. 29 phone call that Yulia's parents recorded, Dr. Dan Chang, an pediatric infectious disease specialist, claimed that the shots "prevent severe disease and death."
Dr. Chang's statement is inaccurate - data from Australia, for example, show that more than 90 percent of Covid deaths occur in vaccinated people.
Dr. Chang also told Yulia's parents that the Covid jabs would help Yulia even though she had already had Covid. "The natural immunity is not as good as if you had natural immunity plus vaccination," he said.
In fact, a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July that examined Covid infections in more than 2 million people in Qatar cast doubt on the effectiveness of so-called "hybrid immunity" against the Omicron variant
The doctors told the Hicks family that they have heard of no other Covid complications or deaths from other transplant centers, meaning there have been no other transplant patients who have suffered a negative outcome because they got the omicron sniffles.
Lee Hicks said he felt that the physicians knew a Covid jab would offer Yulia at best marginal benefits and were simply angry that he and his wife had disagreed with them.
"You're going to do what they say, or you're not going to get this life-saving treatment," he said. "It's like they've forgotten sight of that's the most important thing, which is a girl's life."
Drs. Chang and Chambers did not return emails for comment.
Yeah, of course they didn't. They don't like it when people call them out as evil monsters.
- This isn't science.
- It doesn't follow the data.
- It doesn't prioritize a teen girl's health.
It simply demands compliance to a bureaucratic machine that cares nothing about adverse vaccine effects and everything about obedience.
The Hicks family will now have to seek a transplant outside of North Carolina, which will mean additional expenses for the family of 12. You can help them financially here.
The Hicks family adopted Yulia from the Ukraine in January of 2021 knowing that she had a genetic kidney condition that would eventually require surgery. She fit in right away with Lee and Chrissy's 10 other children, 2 of which are also adopted. 14 year old Yulia (pictured center) is outgoing and always positive despite the hardships in her life, to include the last 15 months of DAILY dialysis. Please help save Yulia's life by making her surgery possible. For the sake of Christ crucified, donate what you can to this wonderful family that has done so much good for others.
The parents will reportedly be on Allie Beth Stuckey's Relatable podcast on Thursday, December 8, to tell more of their story.
