🗞️ Story file #1493
Infant bleeding episodes rise with vitamin K shot refusals
Nov 5, 7 PM ET to Nov 7, 12 PM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.7 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
- 8people retold it online
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- Nov 5, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
- Nov 5, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Nov 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 8 people
- Nov 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
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📡 Wire copy
2 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word
HuffPost, NBC News
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1 Google News
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✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Reuters (2 wordings): “US infant bleeding episodes jump as vitamin K refusals rise, two studies find” → “US infant bleeding episodes jump as vitamin K refusals rise, two studies find - Reuters”
- The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Infant bleeding surged last year as parents refuse vitamin K shot for newborns” → “Infant bleeding surged last year as parents refuse vitamin K shot for newborns - The Washington Post”
📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 5, 4 PM ET
U.S. Infant Bleeding Episodes Jump As Vitamin K Refusals Rise, Two Studies Find
- ABC News🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
More parents decline vitamin K shots for newborns, putting more babies at risk: Study
- NBC News🕒 Nov 6, 4 AM ET
U.S. infant bleeding episodes jump as vitamin K refusals rise, two studies find
- New York Times🕒 Nov 5, 12 PM ET
Infant Bleeding Surged as Parents Rejected Vitamin K Shots, Studies Find
- The Washington Post🕒 Nov 5, 2 PM ET
Infant bleeding surged last year as parents refuse vitamin K shot for newborns
- Reuters🕒 Nov 5, 7 PM ET
US infant bleeding episodes jump as vitamin K refusals rise, two studies find
- Scripps News🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
Study links missed vitamin K shots in newborns to higher bleeding risk
- The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 6, 6 PM ET
Infant Bleeding Incidents Rise Alongside Vitamin K Shot Refusals: Studies
- Newsmax🕒 Nov 5, 6 PM ET
Infant Bleeding Rises as Vitamin K Refusals Grow
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- 🧩 Making America sicker
🧶 online
“Infant bleeding has surged because more parents are refusing vitamin K shots, a trend fueled by skepticism from the Trump administration and RFK Jr.”
🧶 Retold online
- Infant bleeding has surged because more parents are refusing vitamin K shots, a trend fueled by skepticism from the Trump administration and RFK Jr. Nov 6: told by 8 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
ParentsNewbornsInfantsVitamin KStudies
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