Duaa Eldeib, Propublica: 11/8/26: An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn’t Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn’t Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot. This is a sad story about a beautiful baby who died from Vit K deficiency. The parents refused Vit K injection at birth. The article details the delays in recognition and treatment when she started bleeding.
Reuters/NBC News 11/6/26: U.S. infant bleeding episodes jump as vitamin K refusals rise, two studies find
“Rates of life-threatening bleeding in U.S. infants have risen sharply since 2017 as parents increasingly refuse protective newborn doses of vitamin K, a trend that coincides with a growing wave of mistrust toward vaccines and other newborn interventions, two studies published on Thursday found…Woolf and colleagues studied medical records from 11 million infants six months and younger between 2017 and 2025. During that time, the percentage of newborns who received a vitamin K shot fell from 97.7% to 95%, while the rate of vitamin K deficiency bleeding nearly quadrupled and appeared to be accelerating. Of more than 11 million births, there were a total of 5,217 bleeding events over that multi-year period…
An exclusive analysis for Reuters of more than 1 million births nationwide by health data and analytics company Truveta found the percentage of vitamin K refusals accelerated sharply in the first half of 2026, jumping by more than 57% from January through June.”
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