Mother claims transfusion of vaccinated blood killed baby

Less than a week after a New Zealand baby whose parents attempted to refuse vaccinated blood received life-saving surgery, a mother in the U.S. is claiming that her one-month-old baby died because of a blood transfusion from COVID-19-vaccinated donors. The story has been picked up by right-wing and anti-vaccine sites despite the lack of evidence to support it. According to the baby’s mother, he had surgery for a throat condition in February, developed a blood clot shortly after, and died two weeks later. He received a blood transfusion during surgery, and although there is no way to know the vaccination status of blood donors, the parents and anti-vaccine advocates have insisted that vaccinated blood killed the baby.

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