The US Department of Health and Human Services requested the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate vaccines and autism, despite substantial evidence indicating that vaccines do not cause autism.
The agency will carry out the study using the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which tracks vaccine safety and examines rare and severe adverse events, as reported by The Washington Post, citing two individuals knowledgeable about the plan. The planned study was reported earlier by Reuters.
The CDC has released multiple studies examining the potential connection between vaccines, vaccine components, and autism. No evidence has been found to suggest that vaccines raise the risk of autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.
„Wie HHS-Sprecher Andrew Nixon in einer am Freitagabend verschickten E-Mail erklärte, sagte Präsident Trump in seiner gemeinsamen Ansprache vor dem Kongress Folgendes: „Die Autismusrate bei amerikanischen Kindern ist explodiert“. “CDC will explore every avenue in its mission to determine exactly what is going on. It is what the CDC provides: high-quality research and transparency, as the American people expect.
The CDC collaborates with 13 healthcare organizations across the US through the Vaccine Safety Datalink, including 11 that offer electronic health record data and two that provide expertise.
Investigators in various contexts, comprising different nations, have also examined this issue.
Dr. Buddy Creech, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, stated, “Decades of research, including CDC studies utilizing extensive data systems such as the Vaccine Safety Datalink, have demonstrated no connection between vaccines and autism.”
People who champion the cause of those with autism expressed that they found the announcement to be troubling.
Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, which keeps a list of studies on vaccines and autism, stated, “Even just the notion that the government needs to study this is harmful.”
