CDC to Autism and Vaccines After Trump Admin Pushes for Answers

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is questioning decades of research determining that vaccines do not play a role in autism and is instead launching a large-scale study on the alleged connection, Reuters reported.

The U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long claimed that vaccines cause autism, a theory popularized by a discredited doctor and later retracted by The Lancet.

Although it is unclear if Kennedy is leading the study, Trump addressed Congress this week and said the administration is looking into the rise of autism in children and “there’s nobody better than Bobby.”

Kennedy has some authority over the CDC and has frequently maintained his stance on the supposed connection. Although he has denied being anti-vaccine, he has often repeated debunked theories on vaccines and claimed that the U.S. lacked vaccine safety monitoring.

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