Medical misinformation and public doubt about established medical practices can lead to dangerous decisions that harm vulnerable populations; in this case, the RFK Jr. spillover effect describes how skepticism about vitamin K administration has caused parents to refuse this essential newborn treatment, increasing brain bleed risk by 81 times and potentially causing neurological devastation in infants.
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Why else all of a sudden are parents saying no to vitamin K? Will you just I literally never said anything about it.
>> He hasn't said anything. And yet in my 15 years of clinical practice prior to March of 2026, I had had zero parents ever completely refuse vitamin K. And now, when I worked in the burn nursery last, 10% and I fear so much that those babies now have an 81 times likelihood of a brain bleed, may come back in with one in a couple months and be neurologically devastated.
That's exactly the point. You don't say anything about it, but the doubt you've created about all of medicine and science is causing parents to make dangerous decisions. Reckless policies, this is going to be your legacy.
HHS secretary that caused kids to die.
This has a name. It's called the RFK Jr.
spillover effect.
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