Duke University Denies Kidney Transplant to 14-Year-Old Girl Who Refused COVID Vaccine
Duke University Denies Kidney Transplant to 14-Year-Old Girl Who Refused COVID Vaccine – LifeNews.com
Duke University is coming under fire for refusing a life-saving kidney transplant to a dying 14-year-old girl who has not had the COVID vaccine. Yulia Hicks, who is a rescued orphan from Ukraine, was finally adopted by a family in North Carolina after she came to the United States from the war-torn nation.
Denied Transplant
We were hopeful that things would go our way. Today we were told that Yulia cannot have a transplant at Duke even if we have a live donor for her because of our refusal of the HPV and Covid vaccines. The HPV is new, we just learned of it yesterday.
Duke University surgeons are refusing a 14-year-old girl a kidney transplant because she has not received the Covid shot
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.