Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine agenda is one of the biggest political liabilities hanging over Republicans, but his suspicion of the medical system is likely to endure with the GOP base. Why it matters: Kennedy will one day leave public life, whether it's after the midterms or later, and it is an open question who — if anyone — will pick up where he left off merging vaccine skepticism with official health policy. Mistrust of the medical establishment and willingness to question foundations of public health like the childhood vaccine schedule are already baked into segments of the Republican faithful. - Even without Kennedy — the nation's most prominent vaccine critic before entering the Trump administration —…
President Trump has emphasized that he believes that vaccine reform will lead to a dramatic reduction in autism diagnoses.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump stated his belief that multi-shot vaccines and the autism “epidemic” in the U.S are linked at a Monday event centered on school choice in the White House Rose Garden. KEY QUOTE: “We’re strongly requesting, even telling people, when you get your shots for your young child, and this has to do, we think, with preventing autism, that you go to the doctor for five small shots instead of one big, massive shot. You do it in five different shots. Five different shots, small, little shots, where those beautiful little bodies can handle it. And I think you’re going to see a very big difference in the rate of autism, which is like an epidemic, what’s happened with autism.” –…Open
It will also establish a national framework of best practices to address the leading causes of preventable injury and death among autistic individuals.
MS NOW medical analysts Dr. Vin Gupta joins Morning Joe to discuss the latest executive order from President Trump regarding childhood vaccines and clarifies fact from fiction after Trump made false statements about vaccines and links to autism, and separating shots. Dr. Gupta explains why he says the changes would make childhood vaccines more complicated without evidence that it makes kids safer.
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reducing the childhood vaccine schedule from 18 diseases to 11 and suggested that the number or timing of vaccines could be linked to rising rates of autism. But scientific consensus and decades of studies conclude there is no link. Joe blasts the president for spreading the false claim, saying there’s no “single legitimate study” that suggests a link, adding: “if there were, I would have been telling you about it over the last 20 years.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed Tuesday that federal investigators have found widespread irregularities in Maine’s support services for […] Source
ABC News' Danny New shows how a neighborhood in Alabama came together to help a young boy with autism enjoy one of his favorite activities on his birthday.
The Department of Health and Human Services keeps saying it's turning over a new leaf , but it has only been partially successful — and controversial vaccine policymaking appears to be back on the table. Why it matters: Though the agency reset was launched with the midterm elections in mind, it's already under strain and the elections are still more than three months away. State of play: Until this week, the administration had spent most of this year toning down its approach to vaccines, after it became clear through polling that vaccine skepticism was a political liability for the GOP in the midterm elections. - But it wasn't just vaccines. The Food and Drug Administration had become dysfunctional enough that critics were warning of…
