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(NewsNation) — Officials confirmed this play that the Centers for Disease Control volition behaviour a large-scale survey to analyse if there's a causal nexus betwixt vaccines and autism spectrum disorder.
Despite hundreds of worldwide objective trials and studies revealing nary link, the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has vowed to beryllium causation.
The CDC conducted 2 erstwhile investigations, confirming past technological studies.
Measles outbreak rises to 208 cases
The quality comes amid 1 of the largest measles outbreaks the United States has seen successful years.
The outbreak is centered successful West Texas mostly among unvaccinated individuals. As of March 7, 208 cases person been reported, and 10 of those are successful New Mexico, according to the CDC.
At slightest two radical person died, some of whom were unvaccinated. One of them was a school-aged child.
A Health and Human Services spokesperson said the CDC is delivering connected the transparency Americans expect.
During his joint code to Congress past week, Trump touched connected the taxable of autism and the summation successful the fig of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
“Not agelong ago, and you can't adjacent judge these numbers, 1 successful 10,000 children had autism (in the past),” helium said successful the address. “And present it's 1 successful 36 something. One successful 36.”
"We're going to find retired what it is, and there's cipher amended than Bobby (RFK Jr.) and each of the radical that are moving with you,” Trump continued.
Scientists person said the summation successful autism cases is simply a effect of accrued consciousness of the upset and ongoing changes successful the mode that doctors diagnose it.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine skepticism
Vaccine skepticism was 1 of the cornerstones of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statesmanlike campaign, and helium continues to clasp those beliefs.
During his Congressional confirmation hearing for the HHS position, RFK Jr. was grilled connected his attack to vaccines.
“Vaccines bash not origin autism. Do you hold with that?” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., asked.
“As I said, I'm not going to spell into HHS with immoderate preordained --” RFK Jr. said earlier Sanders chopped him off.
“Bobby, studies each implicit the satellite accidental it does not. What bash you think?” Sanders said successful an impassioned tone, aboriginal calling RFK Jr.’s responses “troubling.”
He claimed helium is not “anti-vaccines.” Rather, helium said helium is “pro-safety.”
RFK Jr. did recommend that parents consult with their doctors astir vaccinating their children for measles, saying, "Vaccines not lone support idiosyncratic children from measles but besides lend to assemblage immunity, protecting those who are incapable to beryllium vaccinated owed to aesculapian reasons,” Kennedy said successful an op-ed for Fox Digital.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, who was diagnosed with polio arsenic a child, has attributed the eradication of the illness to vaccinations.
Meanwhile, Trump's nominee for CDC director, Dr. Dave Weldon, who is simply a physician, is scheduled for Senate committee hearings this week. Some senators person already expressed their concerns implicit his views connected vaccines arsenic well.
5th day of COVID-19
This besides comes arsenic the 5th day of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches this week.
More than 800,000 radical died successful the U.S. alone.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious illness specializer and elder student astatine John Hopkins Center for Health Security, called the COVID-19 vaccine “one of the top technological achievements successful modern history.”
By December 2020, 9 months aft the shutdown, a vaccine was created.
“The anti-vaccine question was poised to leap adjacent if this would person taken two years, they would person attacked it,” Adalja said. “Every vaccine that we've developed, adjacent if it's been thing that's taken years to develop, like, for example, the HPV vaccines similar Gardasil, they've attacked those."
On the measles outbreak, Adalja said to NewsNation’s “Morning successful America with Hena Doba,” that it is to beryllium expected erstwhile vaccination rates fall.
“Measles is benignant of the canary successful the ember mine. It’s the archetypal infectious illness that benignant of roars backmost erstwhile vaccination rates autumn due to the fact that it's truthful contagious,” helium said.
On the CDC investigation: “This wastes a batch of resources. This is going to outgo millions and millions of dollars, and it besides puts uncertainty successful people's minds that this nexus has not been wholly disputed.”
