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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.
Trump claims ‘there’s something wrong’ with autism rates when asked about vaccines: ‘We’re going to find out about it’
President-elect Donald Trump refused to say definitively that vaccines do not cause autism at a press conference. Trump spoke alongside the chief executive at SoftBank, who pledged to invest $100 billion in the United States,
The president-elect’s choices to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as agencies such as the National ...
In an interview, outgoing CDC Director Mandy Cohen defended the agency’s wide focus in the face of GOP criticism that it has ...
Public health experts worry that Weldon could undermine confidence in vaccines even as infectious-disease threats such as ...
CDC director nominee Weldon, a vaccine-skeptic, has raised questions about the safety of measles, mumps, rubella and HPV ...
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Dave Weldon of Indialantic — a former Space Coast congressman — to become ...
The battle over the future of vaccines in the United States is kicking into gear.
President-elect Trump announced that former Rep. Dr. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., is his pick as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "In addition to being a Medical ...
Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican Congress member who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been off the political stage for more ...
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon, a physician and vaccine safety skeptic, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While in Congress ...
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