US states consider the Trump administration’s linking of “autism” to vaccines a “dangerous deception”

California and three other US states denounced the “dangerous misinformation” of the Donald Trump administration, which indicates a link between vaccines and autism, stressing that it “threatens the health security” of the United States.

Since his return to power, Trump has appointed Robert Kennedy Jr., known for his anti-vaccine positions and promotion of conspiracy theories, as Secretary of Health.

Kennedy launched a profound reform of US health agencies by laying off a large number of employees and cutting the budget, and promised to identify the causes of what he called the “epidemic” of autism.

Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including the CDC, the country’s main health agency, amended its website in line with the minister’s views.

Now, for example, the site indicates a possible link between vaccines and autism, and the scientific community has denounced this, and some specialists in this disease have accused the Trump administration of returning to the “Middle Ages” by ignoring science.

The states of California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington joined the wave of condemnations.

These four Democratic states, which formed a “health coalition” in September to propose their own guidelines, said in a statement that they were “deeply concerned” by the CDC deviation, and advised American parents to continue vaccinating their children.

She noted that “the lack of consistent, science-based federal leadership poses a direct threat to health security.”