WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Angela Alsobrooks issued the following press release:
As reported today in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/well/live/vitamin-k-shot-bleeding-newborn.html), Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Congresswoman Kim Schrier (D-Wash.-08) demanded immediate action to address a growing and preventable public health crisis: the rising rate of vitamin K refusal at birth and resulting vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) among newborns in a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
"RFK Jr. has spewed lies and dangerous rhetoric about vaccines, and now we are seeing the devastating consequences. Newborns are dying because their parents are refusing to...