The Silent Epidemic: How Vaccine Mistrust is Putting Babies' Lives at Risk A 57% increase in newborn vitamin K shot refusals between January and June this year, as documented by Truveta's analysis of over 1 million births nationwide, should alarm the medical community.
This surge is not a minor blip on the radar but a warning sign that parental attitudes toward routine newborn care are shifting.
Infants without the vitamin K shot face an alarming risk: they are 81 times more likely to suffer life threatening bleeding episodes in their first six months of life.