CDC replaces website on vaccines and autism
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Scientific information on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was replaced Wednesday with anti-vaccine talking points that don’t rule out a link between vaccines and autism, despite an abundance of evidence that there’s no connection.
A previous version denied a link between vaccines and autism. It now echoes the doubts about that conclusion voiced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Health Secretary pointed to his own experience with food allergies and why he thinks early exposure in childhood isn't the answer.
Chickens in a barn Boehringer Ingelheim image The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP) has adopted positive opinions for two Boehringer poultry vaccines against the highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus1.
A new survey conducted by Pew Research Center highlights some of the biggest issues in the ongoing controversy over vaccines—and shows that politics continues to have an outsized influence on how people think about and make decisions about getting immunized.
"A lot of Americans haven't even heard about this," Yam says. American's don't see COVID-19 as much as a health risk as they did before, she says, and the policy changes didn't necessary sway beliefs about getting the shot.