"Babies are bleeding to death as droves of anti-vaxxers shun simple shot... "

[yourout]

https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxxers-for-trump/

[Bettie]

1. Pro Publica link (it is about Vitamin K shots for newborns that helps their blood clot)

I think there is also another thread on this....or I read it somewhere else earlier today.

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

Excerpt:

They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern.

Then, without warning, their systems began to shut down. A 7-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures. An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped breathing for 20 seconds at a time. A baby boy in Kentucky vomited before becoming lethargic. A brown-haired girl in Texas, not yet 2 weeks old, bled around her belly button.

Desperate to save them, records show, doctors inserted tubes into their airways and hooked them up to IVs. They ordered blood transfusions. They spent half an hour trying to resuscitate one boy until his parents told them they could stop. They shaved another boy’s soft locks to embed a needle directly into his skull to reduce the pressure in his brain.

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In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot.

[justaprogressive]

2. OFFS!

Damage done by Faux Nuuz!

[hlthe2b]

3. The stupidity is astounding. I know ob/gyns get & peditricians get tired of arguing with these parents

but damn. If they take the time to do so--no matter how unpleasant and bone-jarringly irritating, they just might save one every once in a while. Ditto on receiving HepB vaccine at birth. Definitely ditto to receiving ocular antibacterial ointment to save the eyes from intrauterine-acquired infection (quite often gonorrhea, but other organisms (Chlamydia, as well and avoid possible loss of an eye shortly after birth--something my late uncle--that died before I was born experienced. At the time they were using silver nitrate ointment and had run out so he did not receive. Today they typically use erythromycin, which, imo is not as broad spectrum as they should be using, but still advised). Honestly, it feels as though they are trying to kill newborns or at least increase their risk for significiant postpartum (or lifetime in the case of hepatitis B) complications.

[Initech]

4. Anti-vaxxer misinformation is a fucking plague.

Thanks Oprah, and fuck you for foisting wellness industry bullshit on us.