RFK Jr. pledges an answer to the ‘autism epidemic’ by September

The Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., made a significant commitment to the White House cabinet meeting in the White House, saying that his agency would “know what caused the epidemic of autism” until September.

Kennedy said HHS has launched in the direction of President Donald Trump, a major research effort involving “hundreds of scientists from around the world” to see the growing rates of autism diagnoses.

“We will find out in your direction until September,” Kennedy said. “We have launched mass tests and research efforts that will include hundreds of scientists from around the world.”

“In September, we will find out what caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to remove these exposures,” he added.

Trump praised Kennedy on the goal of September by speculating – without scientific support – that the answer to speed reduction can be “stop taking something, stop eating something, or maybe it’s a shot, but something causes it.”

Kennedy and Trump have a priority to understand what causes the increase in autistic rates in the United States

Scientists have been studying the cause of autism for decades and identifying genetics and several other factors by playing a role.

It is true that the estimated autism rates have increased over the last 20 years, but experts say that these increasing percentages are probably largely due to better awareness, widespread definition of autistic spectrum and better access to services, which leads to screen and diagnosed children. The still unknown factor may also contribute to the increase.

In 2000, approximately 1 in 150 children in the United States, born in 1992, were diagnosed with autism. By 2020, 1 in 36 children were diagnosed in 2012, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At the cabinet meeting, Kennedy said he believed that these percentages had increased, for new data to be released, up to 1 in 31 children.

In a later interview with Fox News, Kennedy said the National Health Institute would control the survey and that it would look at “everything”.

“We will look at everything. Everything is on the table – our food system, water, our air, we will understand what this epidemic causes,” Kennedy said. “We know this is an environmental toxin that causes this cataclysm. Through NIH studies, we will find an answer to this question.”

In his hearing to confirm, NIH Director Jay Bhathachary said that he “completely” supports childhood vaccination and does not “generally do not believe” that there is a connection between vaccines and autism. But he said finding answers to growing cases with autism is generally a vital goal of public health.

The Republican Senator Bill Cassidi, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, encouraged Bhathachary to examine the autism tariff[ing] The barren land “to investigate vaccines and autism because it has already been debunked” repeatedly “.

“If we pee money here, that’s less money that we have to go on after the real reason,” Cassidy, a doctor, told Bhattacharya during his hearing. But Kennedy also brought a well -known vaccine skeptic, David Gayer, to study the relationship between vaccines and autism, Washington and the New York Times reports.

The anxiety, according to experts, is that although he invests more in research, he can give answers, Kennedy also often raises the issue of MMR vaccines (measles, mumps and rubella) as a relationship, despite dozens of studies that debunk the claim.

An increased vaccine fluctuation platform is a special risk as hundreds of measles are spread in Western Texas, largely in non -vague communities, and two non -school -age children have been killed.

Despite Kennedy’s efforts to investigate vaccines and autism, he said in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday that he promoted vaccination, especially a supportive deviation from some of Kennedy’s previous comments. “The position of the government, my position, is that people should get the measles vaccine,” he said, though he added that it should not be a mandate.