The baby needed urgent heart surgery. The parents did not agree that he would receive "vaccinated blood" - voila! health

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Here is a disturbing story that comes from the other side of the world: The British Guardian newspaper reports that the New Zealand Health Service has applied for guardianship of a four-month-old baby whose parents refuse to approve the heart surgery that will save his life, unless blood from a person not vaccinated against Corona is used.

The baby's parents discussed their son's health condition and their medical preferences in an interview with an anti-vaccine activist.

In an interview, the parents said their baby had severe stenosis of a pulmonary valve, and that he needed surgery "almost immediately," but that they were "very concerned about the blood they're going to use."

We don't want vaccine-tainted blood, the father said.

This is the place to perhaps remind everyone that the vaccines to prevent serious illness and death from corona have been found to be extremely safe and effective, with hundreds of millions of people around the world having been vaccinated.

According to the blood service, NZ Blood, any corona vaccine breaks down in the blood shortly after injection.

They are not ready for their son to receive blood from Corona-vaccines.

Blood donations (Photo: ShutterStock)

The health service filed documents in the High Court in Auckland on Monday under the Child Care Act.

He requested that custody of the baby be transferred from his parents so that consent could be given for the use of donated blood, the NZ Herald reported.

Dr. Mike Shepherd, Oakland's interim director of health services, said he knows it can be worrying for parents who have a sick child and are making decisions about their care. Still, "the decision to apply to court is always made with the best interests of the child in mind and following conversations extensiveness with the health services," said Shepherd. "Since the matter is before the courts, we will not comment further."

"A tragic case of life and death"

Last Wednesday, the parties appeared in court to set a date for an urgent hearing, while a group of 100 vaccine opponents gathered outside the building.

The state health services representative told the court that medical professionals said a child with such a condition would have been treated a few weeks ago under normal circumstances;

While parents' lawyer Sue Gray - another prominent anti-vaccine activist - said parents want better care than the state offers.

"Because they label my clients as conspiracy theorists, [their position] is that everything my clients say can be ignored," she said.

The New Zealand Blood Services wrote that "All donated blood is also filtered during processing, so any trace amounts that may still be present do not pose a risk to recipients. We do not separate or label blood based on a donor's vaccination status for Covid-19. He added that there is no Evidence that previous vaccinations affected the quality of blood for transfusion.

"Parents have a lot of decision-making authority over their child's life - there is a huge area of ​​discretion for parents to make decisions, including on medical issues," the experts said.

"But it has limits, and this is one of those tragic cases where the limit has life and death consequences."

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