The lure of power is so strong that they don't care that history is watching. One of the sad things about being 71 is I probably won't live to see this corrupt administration analyzed and excoriated in the history books.

SCOTUS protected him--they ruled 6-3 that he has "absolute immunity" from prosecution within an "exclusive sphere of constitutional authority," such as communicating with the justice dept. regarding election fraud, and presumptive immunity for "outer perimeter of official responsibiity." A joke. 🙄

I loved Diane Keaton and I loved her home in that movie. I don't need a plot, I don't need Jack Nicholson. Just Keaton and that home on the beach, ignore everything else.

Absolutely not. I agree.

2/2 feeling sick. Hand sanitizer doesn't kill it. Just great.🙄.. So I can no longer order in with confidence, at least for the next several months. I had 2 DoorDash places, a pub, a Chinese restaurant, that would deliver great food to me. Now that's out. Still determined to stay healthy, dammit.

How can it be in the time period when there is highest level of medical knowledge and highest amount of availability of information ever in civilization that his nonsense continues unabated. Crackpots like RFK Jr. are in positions of power (well, he's not the only crackpot in power), hurting ppl.

This isn’t the only concerning trend for the health of babies in the U.S., either. Just last week, ACIP—recently reassembled by antivaxxer and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—struck down a decades-long recommendation to universally vaccinate children at birth against hepatitis B.

In any case, it’s the infants of these families who will potentially suffer the most.

“Unfortunately, opting out of Vitamin K for a newborn is akin to gambling with a child’s health, forgoing a straightforward and safe measure that effectively prevents severe complications,” said Scott.

It’s possible that some people are wrongly conflating vitamin K shots with vaccines. And even if not, there’s certainly some overlap between people who deny the benefits of supplemental vitamin K at birth and anti-vaccination proponents.

which continues to falsely attack the covid-19 mRNA vaccines as dangerous, gene-altering weapons of mass destruction. But the pandemic may not be the only factor behind this trend, the researchers note, since the rate of vitamin K refusal actually first began to rise in 2019.

Part of this rise may stem from the covid-19 pandemic, the authors speculate. The pandemic fueled mistrust of public health authorities, for both legitimate and not-so-legitimate reasons. The increased relevance of the anti-vaccination movement,

The team’s findings (JAMA) can’t provide a concrete answer as to why more infants are not getting vitamin K at birth. That said, there haven’t been any changes in medical guidelines, suggesting that more parents are refusing to let their children receive the shot.

Researchers began noticing more families refusing the shot, though anecdotally. Was this trend might be happening on a national level? Over the study period, the annual percentage of newborns not receiving vitamin K noticeably rose, from 2.92% in 2017 to 5.18% in 2024—a 77% relative increase.

Since 1961, groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics have recommended that all newborns be given a single dose of vitamin K at birth. And this measure has all but eliminated the risk of vitamin K deficiency and VKDB among babies in the U.S.

These low levels in infants can then cause a rare but potentially life-threatening condition called vitamin K deficiency bleeding, or VKDB. If this bleeding occurs in the brain, it can lead to a stroke.

Unfortunately, babies are born with relatively low levels of vitamin K. It also takes months until the baby can obtain enough vitamin K on its own from solid foods and their gut bacteria (breast milk typically contains little vitamin K, so it can’t remedy this alone).