What happened

President Donald Trump yesterday used a press conference on autism to offer pregnant women unfounded and in some cases discredited medical advice on Tylenol and vaccinations. Health officials at the briefing said the Food and Drug Administration would approve leucovorin, a form of vitamin B currently approved to treat chemotherapy side effects, as a treatment for some children with “autistic symptoms,” and announced a new push to research environmental factors behind the complex brain disorder.

Who said what

“Don’t take Tylenol,” Trump advised pregnant women. “Fight like hell not to take it” unless they “can’t tough it out” or have an extremely high fever. The FDA was “far more measured” in a note to physicians yesterday, noting “accurately” that no “ causal relatio

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