(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Doctors at Duke University hospital forgot about their Hippocratic oath when they refused to perform a life-saving kidney transplant operation on a 14-year-old girl because she didn’t inject herself with a COVID-19 vaccine, according to American Greatness.
A Christian family from North Carolina adopted Yulia Hicks in Jan. 2021 after she came to the United States from Ukraine. Chrissy and Lee Hicks, her adopted parents, are Army veterans who have eleven children — eight biological and three adopted.
Yulia suffers from Senior Loken Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that constantly destroys her kidneys and eyes.
To fight the disease, Hicks’s brought her to Duke University hospital for medical treatment. Initially, they were “embraced and encouraged” by the hospital staff who helped them to navigate through the long and intensive transplant process.
The doctors stopped to care about Yulia on Nov. 11, when they told the family that the girl won’t receive the kidney transplant because she isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
“We can’t require you to do anything, but we can deny you because you are not following our recommendations,” Catherine Thomas, a wellness coordinator, told Chrissy during the conference call.
Even though Yulia already had coronavirus and received natural immunity after recovering from it, the doctors didn’t care.
“During the call, the medical team insisted that the COVID vaccine would benefit Yulia, even though the COVID jabs wane after a few months, and come with a serious risk of adverse side effects,” American Greatness reported.
“Dr. Dan Chang, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, argued that the shots ‘prevent severe disease and death,’ however data from around the world now shows that the majority of COVID deaths are occurring in vaccinated people.”
“Dr. Chang also inaccurately stated that the Covid jabs would help Yulia even though she had already had Covid,” the news outlet added.
“’The natural immunity is not as good as if you had natural immunity plus vaccination.’”
Chrissy responded to the situation on Yulia’s website.
“To think that a committee can determine someone’s life is terrifying,” she wrote.
“This is, without a doubt, medical tyranny. What has become of the medical community? How does the refusal of a shot that is known to cause many health issues AND does NOT stop the spread of a disease deny a 14-year lifesaving therapy? How does that happen in America?”
“We do not have medical freedom or religious freedom anymore,” she added.
