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Taking Action, Then Being Stalled

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In May, I posted an article about Yulia Hicks, a child who was denied a kidney transplant at Duke University Hospital because she had not received a Covid-19 vaccine. Yulia had had Covid-19, recovered from the disease, and had natural immunity. Thankfully, East Carolina University agreed to do the surgery, and Yulia is well on her way to recovery. However, the story doesn’t end there.

In their week of August 3rd edition, The County Compass updated the story of Yulia. In the article, The County Compass reported that Celeste Cairns, a representative to the North Carolina legislature from Carteret County, introduced a bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives on April 6 that would prohibit North Carolina transplant centers from discriminating (House Bill 586) against individuals seeking to donate or receive an anatomical gift or organ transplant solely on the bases is their Covid-19 vaccination status. The bill was also introduced in the North Carolina Senate on April 5. The main sponsor of the Senate bill is Senator Jim Perry. The main sponsors of the House bill are Representatives Celeste Cairns, Sarah Stevens, Kristin Baker, and Donna McDowell White. The bill was referred to the Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate on 5/3/2023 and hasn’t been heard from since. This is the link to the page showing the members of this committee. It would be really nice if they heard from the citizens of North Carolina that discriminating against people who were not vaccinated is not acceptable. If you click on the names of the people on the committee, the site will provide you with their email addresses. If you would like to see this bill passed, please let the committee members know.

 

 

Someone Stepped Forward To Solve The Problem

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On Monday, The Daily Wire reported that the child who had been denied a kidney transplant at Duke University Hospital because she was not vaccinated for Covid-19 will now be receiving a kidney transplant at another hospital.

The article reports:

The teen has a genetic kidney disorder that requires a transplant, but her family said last year that Duke was refusing to put Yulia on the kidney wait list because she is unvaccinated against COVID. Notably, the family says Yulia has already recovered from the virus.

…The Daily Wire reported last year that a phone call, the recording of which was obtained by journalist Alex Berenson, revealed a Duke health official telling the Hicks family that Yulia must get vaccinated against COVID before she could become a candidate for the kidney transplant.

“I can’t require you to do anything. I can recommend these things, but if you don’t follow our recommendations, then Yulia can’t be a transplant candidate here,” the Duke Health kidney specialist reportedly said.

“Being unvaccinated to the CDC recommended vaccinations based on her age is part of that,” the kidney specialist allegedly added.

Her family said Yulia has already contracted COVID and recovered, but doctors told them Yulia’s natural immunity was not enough, according to the recorded call.

“The virus has continued to mutate and so the natural immunity is not as good as if you had natural immunity plus vaccination,” one doctor said on the call.

Chrissy Hicks told The Daily Wire that Yulia was headed to the hospital on Monday morning for a pre-operational consultation. The surgery is scheduled for Thursday.

I don’t know about you, but I know a lot of vaccinated people who have been sick with Covid-19. Right now most of the cases I am aware of are people who are vaccinated–not the unvaccinated. Unfortunately, many of the people who have been vaccinated and many of the people who have recovered from Covid-19 have had the disease multiple times. The good news is that people who are currently getting the disease don’t seem to be as sick as people who caught the original virus. At some point, doctors might have to admit that the vaccine has not proven effective in preventing the disease.