Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to abandon its long-held position that vaccines do not cause autism.
In an interview with The New York Times, Kennedy acknowledged that major epidemiological studies have found no link between autism and the MMR vaccine or the once-used preservative thimerosal.
However, Kennedy claimed gaps remain in research on other vaccines given to infants, such as hepatitis B and the DTaP shot, and argued that the blanket statement “vaccines do not cause autism” is “not supported by science.”
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