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Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report
Two lawmakers urged the CDC to track vitamin K shot refusals for newborns after a ProPublica report highlighted preventable deaths linked to the refusal. The vitamin K shot, routine since 1961, is being declined by some families due to medical mistrust and misinformation, but federal and state agencies do not track refusal rates or related bleeding cases.
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- What Vitamin K Shot Refusals Are Really Telling Us
- Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
- Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency
- Infants are bleeding out after parents decline vitamin K shots given at birth