What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
www.propublica.org
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
  • anon6789@lemmy.world
    12·
    4 months ago

    I was just reading about this earlier this week in writing a post on how rat poison kills animals beyond the intended rodents and how/why it is treated with vitamin K. Rat poisons block the liver from metabolizing the Vitamin K into blood clotting agents. So it sounds like these babies are going through the same experience as something that’s gotten a fatal dose of rat poison. We at least should have the intelligence to get the readily available cure. Such as shame…

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    64·
    4 months ago

    This is a systemic problem, not the sum of individuals making stupid decisions.

    The American problem with medicine isn’t because people are stupid or that conspiracy theories are powerful, it’s because mistrust of the American medical institution is 10,000% rational.

    American doctors and hospitals kill people for money every day. Their lack of credibility didn’t come from Facebook.