Health researchers are sounding the alarm after noticing more people refusing life-saving blood transfusions because they come from vaccinated donors.
In a study out of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 15 patients or families of patients who needed blood transfusions rejected them because they requested blood from donors who were not vaccinated.
The majority of patients were children or teenagers.
The refusal led one patient to go into shock, another to develop anemia and others to have their surgeries delayed.
Now, doctors involved say they fear more Americans, spurred by vaccine-suspicious health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will follow.
Over a two-year period, the researchers found requests for non-anonymous – meaning patients can choose specific donors for their transfusion – had increased because the patients specifically wanted blood from unvaccinated individuals.
The patients had told doctors they wanted unvaccinated blood because they believed it was safer, but their exact safety concerns are unclear.
Researchers noted that while the total number of these donations was small, the requests caused delayed care and could have contributed to complications of not receiving a timely blood transfusion, which can include organ failure, stroke and death.
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