HHS Secretary Alex Azar suggested that President Trump’s statements linking vaccines to autism during the 2016 campaign were based on a “debate” that had since been settled
HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Monday that a measles outbreak had infected at least 704 people, the highest number recorded in 25 years, and praised President Donald Trump for urging U.S. parents to vaccinate their children after years of stating that vaccines cause autism.
Azar said Trump's statements during the 2016 campaign linking vaccination to autism were based on a “debate about this issue but it’s been settled. The scientific community generated definitive information so we can reassure every parent there is no link.”“The president is very clear that children should get their shots, that parents should make sure they are up to date,” Azar told reporters on a call.
Scientists immediately challenged the 1998 paper linking the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine to autism, and it was retracted by the journal that published it in 2010. But Trump repeated the claim during his campaign and met with its author, the British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.
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