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Mass freakout as parents 'duped' by RFK Jr's MAHA make 'life-threatening mistake'

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The share of U.S. newborns going without a standard, life-saving vitamin K shot has spiked this year, and critics are sounding the alarm over the anti-vaccine climate they blame for it. A Reuters analysis of more than 1 million births by the data firm Truveta found refusals of the newborn vitamin K shot rose more than 57% from January through June 2026. Babies are born with very low levels of vitamin K, which the body needs to clot blood, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that without the injection, infants are 81 times more likely to suffer life-threatening bleeding in the brain or gut during their first six months. Vitamin K is not a vaccine, but Reuters reports the surge tracks a wider wave of vaccine mistrust and aligns with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s January move dropping the recommended birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine and five other childhood shots. Kennedy, who has spent years sowing doubt about vaccines , denied any role when asked direct

First report: EXCLUSIVE: US refusals of crucial newborn vitamin spike, raising risk of dangerous bleeding — reuters.com, 14d