My wife declined the Hepatitis B vaccine for my newborn. We argued about it. I’m scared to death of making the wrong decision. I’m asking for help, what do you guys think is appropriate for newborn vaccines? The nurse came to our house and told us if we didn’t get the vaccines they wouldn’t work with us anymore. I brought up autism and she said that the person who came out with that lost their medical license and there are ZERO negative side effects for the Hep B vax. Exact words.
It was a long and hard pregnancy. My wife has had trauma in her past and refused any meds (which I was conflicted about because it was a nightmare to live through) and now she may be suffering from post-partem depression. She is way more anti-vax than I am, hates hospitals and doctors after what has happened, and I can’t blame her. Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.
I looked into all this recently and the justifications don’t align with reality. They tell you newborn screening is to treat rare diseases early but many are untreatable, the false positives are through the roof (some are at 90-95% false), AND there are literally research papers telling you the blood spots are used internationally for medical research (it’s ok, they removed identifying information except for your entire genetic sequence).
Then there’s Vit K…the vitamin they say literally every baby is born deficient and you’re stupid to ask if there is a biological mechanism for that…
Screening tests often have high false positive rates. The goal is to have zero false negatives. That being said, I don’t doubt they are harvesting generic sequences.
How do they assess false negatives?
Theoretically they develop a test using a known pool of positives and ensure that the test doesn’t come back neg on any of them. However in practice the other reply is likely accurate.
However they need to. I'm not even kidding.