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Surprise: Trump’s Pick for CDC Chief Has Spread the Debunked Claim That Vaccines Can Cause Autism
The Washington Post reports that Weldon—a physician and former congressman whom anti-vaccine activists wanted to lead the CDC during Trump’s first term—has a “record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence attesting to the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
Public health experts worry that Weldon could undermine confidence in vaccines even as infectious-disease threats such as ...
Greene declared her latest conspiracy theory in a post to X, where it was hit with a corrective community note ...
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Today's health news includes an exit interview with the CDC's Mandy Cohen, the average BMI in the US declined in 2023, and ...
Donald Trump defended his nomination of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy for health secretary as the US president elect offered up debunked data linking vaccines and autism in his first post-election ...
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