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Health researchers are sounding the alarm after noticing more people refusing life-saving blood transfusions because they come from vaccinated donors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The majority of patients were children or teenagers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The refusal led one patient to go into shock, another to develop anemia and others to have their surgeries delayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, doctors involved say they fear more Americans, spurred by vaccine-suspicious health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, will follow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n The patients had told doctors they wanted unvaccinated blood because they believed it was safer, but their exact safety concerns are unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n A Vanderbilt University study found an increase in patients asking for unvaccinated blood for blood transfusions (stock image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n