President Trump said this weekend that his administration will have something “very important” to say about autism on Monday.
I think it’s going to be a very important announcement, and I think it’s going to be one of the most important things that we are going to do,” Trump said at a dinner Saturday hosted by the conservative American Cornerstone Institute.
Trump’s announcement comes after the Wall Street Journal wrote recently that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will release a report suggesting that the use of the over-the-counter pain medication Tylenol by pregnant women is potentially linked to autism, contrary to medical guidelines that say it is safe to use.
Autism diagnoses in the United States have increased greatly since 2000, which has elevated public concern in soem