Shunned by Duke's Children's Hospital, a teen prevails with community support
Yulia Hicks, a teen Moore County kidney transplant candidate, was forcibly denied access to the life-saving procedure in 2022 when administrators at Duke Children’s Hospital insisted she receive a COVID mRNA jab. Her parents declined, sharing the concern of millions of Americans that injecting children with an emergency "vaccine" carried excess risk (a fear that has since been validated by numerous research studies).
The Hicks family argued that their adopted daughter was immune to the virus because she had previously tested positive and fully recovered. In a brutal display of the widespread tyranny of the virus era, Duke officials heartlessly stood their ground. No jab, no kidney.
Undeterred, Yulia and her 10 siblings, and their parents, pressed on in their quest to locate a medical facility that would perform the transplant, and, to find an eligible donor.
After finding the donor in early May, and following a few stops and starts owed to medical bureaucracy, Yulia was admitted to ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, where she underwent a successful transplant on May 25, 2023.
Yulia's mom, Chrissy, has communicated throughout the months-long process via the GiveSendGo crowd funding platform, where she delivered the good news.
"Yulia had an amazing live donor," she wrote. "His initials are JJ. Please pray for his recovery. He is a hero. Yulia is recovering very well."
Amid Yulia's ongoing recovery, the Hicks family and its many supporters are turning full attention to taking aggressive legal action against Duke Health to punish administrators for their willful negligence.
"We are also still raising money for legal fees for our lawsuit against Duke," she wrote. "What they did to our daughter was unconscionable."
To date, the crowd funding campaign has attracted more than $250,000 in donations from more than 3,800 donors.
Chrissy Hicks continues to encourage North Carolina citizens to urge members of the North Carolina Senate to bring Bill 644 (aka, Yulia's Law) to the floor for a vote. A House version of the law passed overwhelmingly. The bill "requires a covered health care entity to make reasonable modifications to allow individuals who refuse COVID-19 vaccination to access transplant services."
Investigative journalist Alex Berenson, whose reporting exposed numerous myths passed off by medial and government authorities as settled science, broke the Hicks story in 2022. The native Ukrainian teen was adopted by the Hicks family despite their knowledge that she had been diagnosed with a genetic kidney disorder.
Reported Berenson, "Yulia’s life has not been easy. She came from Ukraine to the United States in December 2018, and was given up by her first two adoptive families before the Hicks family adopted her in 2021."
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