The share of U.S. newborns leaving the hospital without a vitamin K shot rose more than 57 percent between January and June, according to a review of health records covering more than 1 million births by the health data company Truveta. Reuters reported the findings first. In Truveta's published summary, the rate of newborns with no documented vitamin K administration climbed from 5.2 percent in January to 8.1 percent in June.
That works out to roughly one in twelve newborns by June, up from about one in nineteen six months earlier. The analysis identified 1,026,375 infants born to 825,599 mothers between January 2019 and June 2026.
