Study says newborn girls are less likely to get vitamin K shots. Why is that?

Study says newborn girls are less likely to get vitamin K shots. Why is that?

A new study suggests that newborn girls are less likely to get vitamin K injections at a time when more and more parents are opting out of the preventative measure. The research, published in JAMA Network Open, also showed that parents were less likely to give girls the hepatitis B vaccine. Researchers analyzed data on 93,163 newborns at three centers of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia between January 2018 and Decemb…