The Trump administration requested the CDC to investigate the connection between vaccines and autism after President Trump highlighted increasing autism rates. Recent data indicated that 1 in 36 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with autism. The CDC stated it will rigorously pursue research on this issue, aiming for transparency, while Trump suggested that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would lead this endeavor. Despite uncertainties about Kennedy's involvement, there's notable support for the CDC's investigation from health experts who see this as a critical turning point in autism research.
In response to the Reuters story, the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided an identical statement: "As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed. CDC will leave no stone unturned in its mission to figure out what exactly is happening."
Trump said, "There's something wrong. So, we're going to find out what it is, and there's nobody better than Bobby [Kennedy] and all of the people that are working with you."
Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., Children's Health Defense (CHD) senior research scientist, applauded "the CDC's newfound curiosity in vaccines and autism." He said the U.S. "passed an inflection point" in the 1990s, where autism "went from being a rarity to a significant concern."
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