US EditionCDC's Website Revision Suggesting Vaccines-Autism Link Draws Scrutiny
CDC's updated webpage includes language reflecting vaccine skepticism from senior officials and repeats unfounded claims despite 40 high-quality studies disproving a vaccine-autism link.
- Late Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its vaccines-and-autism webpage, adding language that muddies its prior stance that immunizations do not cause autism.
- A senior Trump official's vaccine skepticism influenced the CDC update, reflecting views Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. health secretary, has long promoted, while Demetre Daskalakis resigned earlier this year in protest.
- Prior CDC pages cited a 2013 CDC study and years of research showing no causal link between vaccines and autism, with Susan Kressly noting, `Since 1998, independent researchers across seven countries have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving 5.6 million people.`
- Career scientists expressed anger and concern over the edits Thursday, as NPR and Autism Science Foundation said the vaccine-autism link is debunked and HHS spokesperson called such claims not evidence-based.
- HHS has begun a comprehensive assessment of autism causes, including vaccine links, while experts warn media outlets including CNN and NPR say the change risks undermining vaccine confidence.
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What the CDC’s vaccine–autism reversal means for US public health
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 — The US health agency has updated its official website to reflect the vaccine skepticism of a senior Trump official, a move that medical and public health experts widely condemned.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) late Wednesday revised its site with language that undermines its previous, scientifically grounded position that immunizations do not cause the developmental disability autism.Years of research d…
The Department of Health has always pointed out that the studies show no link between the two, citing a series of high quality research. Now the change reflects the position of skepticism of the head of U.S. Health, Robert Kennedy Jr.
The U.S. health agency updated its official website to reflect the scepticism about vaccines of the Trump administration’s secretary of health, a decision condemned by doctors and public health experts The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewed their website on Wednesday night with language that contradicts their previous position, based on scientific evidence, that vaccines do not cause developmental disorder known as autism.…
The U.S. health agency updated its official website to reflect the scepticism about vaccines of the Trump administration’s Secretary of Health, a decision condemned by doctors and public health experts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewed their website on Wednesday night with language that contradicts their previous position, based on scientific evidence, that vaccines do not cause developmental disorder known as autism. Ye…
The U.S. health agency updated its official website to reflect scepticism about Trump's Secretary of Health's vaccines.
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