Three accusations of Trump that connect autism to acetamol and the vaccines controlled by the BBC

Experts deny the statements presented by the President of the United States Donald Trump that the vaccines and the common Aracetamol analgesic could cause autism in children

American president Donald Trump has been widely criticized by health experts, trying to say that there would have been a connection between the Tylenol announcement – which can be purchased without revenue and autism.

Accompanied by his health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump said that doctors are soon recommended not to recommend pregnant women to use the drug, known as paracetamol in Brazil and the United Kingdom, among other countries.

Medical experts question the president’s statements.

The American College of Gynecologists and Ostetricians said that the announcement is “worrying” and is not based on “reliable data”. The United Kingdom National Autism Society has qualified Trump’s declaration as “dangerous, scientific and irresponsible”.

The BBC Verify (the BBC factual control industry) examined some of the accusations presented by Trump and Kennedy during its press conference at the White House.

Is Trump right to say that the diagnoses of American autism are increasing?

During the event, Trump mentioned several statistics that, according to him, show that autism diagnoses in the United States would have increased rapidly in the last two decades.

The President of the United States said that the incidence increased by about “one out of 10,000 … probably 18 years ago” one “one every 31” in 2025.

The final statistics mentioned by Trump (that the incidence of autism has increased to one every 31) are correct. The 2022 data from the United States’s control and prevention centers (CDC) show that this is the eight -year -old diagnostic rate in 16 American states.

The index, in fact, has increased in the last 18 years, but does not far reach the number mentioned by Donald Trump (“one every 10,000 for 18 years”).

There are no numbers available for 2007 (the year mentioned by Trump). But in 2006, the CDC estimated that the incidence of autism between the population of the United States was 1 out of 110 people. And in 2008 it was 1 out of 88.

Most experts say that an increase in autism rates can mainly be attributed to changes in the form of diagnosis of the condition, as well as their greater recognition and greater number of people who pass through the exams.

Trump also declared Sunday (21/09) that the American state of California has a “more serious problem” with autism than other states interviewed by the CDCs.

The CDC estimated that by 2022 about 1 out of 12 to eight years in California has autism -the highest rate for the studio boys in 16 states.

But the agency stressed that the state promotes a local initiative, training hundreds of pediatricians to “select and forward children to evaluate as soon as possible, which can involve greater identification” of autism.

Should the triple viral vaccine be administered separately?

Another statement of Trump concerns the effects of the triple viral vaccine against paroti, measles and rubella.

The President of the United States said that the vaccination “should be separated” and not combined in a single application. “It seems that when I mix them, a problem could arise,” he said.

Experts are afraid that if parents stop vaccinating their children due to unfounded declarations of the President of the United States, there will be a risk of rebirth of diseases such as measles.

The idea has already denied that childhood vaccines would have been connected to autism for the first time attracting public attention in 1998, with an article published in the medical journal The Lancet, written by the British doctor Andrew Wakefield.

Later it was discovered that Wakefield had conflicts of interest.

Some of the test participants, for example, were linked to a cause against companies that produce vaccines. And the United Kingdom General Medical Council (GMC) also concluded that it falsified the results.

The research document was collected and the GMC canceled the Wakefield record in 2010.

Several studies have since found a relationship between the triple viral vaccine and autism.

The most recent of these is a 2019 Danish study that examined 657,461 children. The conclusion was that the data do not argue that the triple viral vaccine can cause or awaken autism.

On their website, the United States CDC recommend the administration to children of two doses of the triple viral vaccine. The first dose should be provided at 12-15 months and the second, between four and six years.

In Brazil, the Ministry of Health recommends the first dose of the triple viral vaccine for 12 months of age. The second dose “should be administered at 15 months, through the tetraviral vaccine, which strengthens measles, parotitis and protection of rubella (second dose of viral triple) and includes the first dose against chickenpox (chickenpox).”

The British government says that “there is no evidence” that vaccines should be taken separately and any decision in this sense “would be experimental”.

This year, the United States witnessed the highest cases of measles in over three decades. According to the CDC, 1,491 cases have been confirmed so far and three people have died.

“President Trump did not produce evidence of the fact that the current immunization program in states was harmful and that the administration of the triple viral vaccine was insecuous,” said the health professor of children David Elliman of the University College London.

“The defenders of a relationship between the triple viral vaccine and autism mention the research of 1998, published in The Lancet, whose first author was Andrew Wakefield”, explains Elliman.

“In fact, the authors of the study have clearly declared in the article not to have demonstrated this report, but suggested to conduct new research. These research has been conducted and have not found evidence of any relationship”.

Experts also say that allowing the interval of vaccines makes children more likely to contract diseases in this member or losing vaccination in case of multiple applications.

Are autism rates lower among the Amish groups?

Trump mentioned Amish as a group in the United States that “practically no autism” in his community.

Amish groups generally live in remote communities. They refuse to adopt many resources from modern life, which can include suspicions about current pharmacist products.

Trump suggested, without providing evidence, that Tylenol’s low rate in the group could lead to a lower incidence of autism.

There are relatively few studies on the incidence of autism in the Amish community. Many children are diagnosed at school, but most of them leave studies after the eighth year, about 14 years.

“I think it is very, very unlikely that there are no autistic people among the Amish,” said BBC to Professor Eva Loth of King’s College London.

“The question is how many population studies have been made with Amish? Amish often seek diagnosis?” Asks.

“That is, the reported numbers can be low for several reasons, but this does not mean that there are no cases [de autismo]. “

In a study conducted in 2010, a group of geneticists concluded that autism occurs in about one in 271 Amish children. The survey examined 1,899 children in two large Amish communities in the American states of Ohio and Indiana.

But it should be noted that research on this topic is limited and we do not find any study that indicates a possible relationship between low immunization rates and the diagnosis of autism between Amish people.

Trump made a similar statement on the autism levels in Cuba. He claimed that the reason would be Tylenol’s low offer on the island. But it is not known for sure what the foundations would be for the evaluation of the President of the United States.

The BBC Verify has not found official Cuban statistics in this regard and the World Health Organization (WHO) said that “the incidence of autism in many low and medium income countries is unknown”.

What did Trump say about autism?

For almost 20 years, Trump has expressed, from time to time, concern about the increase in the incidence of autism among American children.

In 2007, he publicly suggested, for the first time, to believe that there would have been a relationship between vaccines and a greater impact.

The president expresses interest in Kennedy’s work at least since 2017. That year, the current Health Secretary said that Trump had asked him to lead a Task Force on vaccine security.

Seven years later, Kennedy (then about 5% in the electoral polls) removed his candidacy for the presidential presidency of the United States, supporting Donald Trump.

During the election campaign, a connection between Trump and Kennedy, in which the Republican tried to convince the independent candidate to support him for the presidency, transpired to the public.

At the time, Trump was listened to discussing statements already denied on the risks to the health of vaccines in childhood.

After the elections, Trump announced Kennedy to guide the Department of Health and Human Services, with the mission of “Making America healthy”.

But in his first term, Trump actually supported some vaccination campaigns. During a measles outbreak in the United States in 2019, he said people “need to get the vaccine. Vaccination is very important”.

In addition, it was the Trump government that supervised rapid development and the first exits of Covid-19 vaccines.

Source: Terra

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