President Donald Trump and Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are enjoying physician on the expense of the nation’s well being. However whereas they’re manufacturing nonsense about what causes autism, precise scientists are doing precise science.
A brand new research, printed in Obstetrics and Gynecology, discovered that when expectant moms had a COVID-19 an infection, the youngsters they gave beginning to confirmed a larger danger of getting autism and different neurological points.
Wait, are these pointy-headed scientists actually not specializing in Tylenol as a explanation for autism? How dare they not hearken to Trump and Kennedy! Are they actually saying that COVID, which everyone knows may be fastened by a mix of ivermectin, intravenous bleach, and leeches, is dangerous for moms and fetuses?
A well being care employee prepares a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
The research, carried out by medical doctors and lecturers related to Massachusetts Basic Hospital and Harvard Medical College, reviewed over 18,100 births in Massachusetts throughout the early a part of the COVID pandemic, from March 1, 2020, to Might 31, 2021. They discovered that, of 861 girls who examined optimistic for COVID whereas pregnant, 140 had kids who would get a neurodevelopment-related analysis by age 3. When the mom had an an infection throughout the third trimester, the danger for a kid displaying adversarial developmental outcomes was even larger.
Amongst these developmental issues have been delayed speech, motor issues, and autism. And the researchers mentioned these children can also be at the next danger of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance later in life.
Now, as a result of these are actual scientists and never a bizarre nepo child with a mind worm like Kennedy, their conclusions are tentative. They aren’t definitively stating that the research proves COVID causes autism or different neurodevelopmental points. Their findings are extra so {that a} maternal an infection throughout being pregnant seems to extend the probability of these issues taking place. Extra analysis is required to ascertain a causal hyperlink.
Tylenol merchandise sit on a retailer shelf.
Okay, positive, however what about all these nice research displaying that taking Tylenol whereas pregnant causes a child to have autism? Yeah, about that: There aren’t any conclusive research that show a causal hyperlink between taking Tylenol throughout being pregnant and a baby being recognized with autism.
In the meantime, since Kennedy each is confused about being pregnant and believes he’s the neatest man within the room, he’s getting mad at one girl on TikTok making video through which he claims she was “gobbling Tylenol” whereas she had “a baby in her placenta”—which is, you recognize, not the place fetuses are.
Additionally, please ignore the rising analysis that the COVID vaccine might support most cancers sufferers in preventing tumors.
Whereas all of this nonsense is happening, the administration has been rolling again entry to the COVID-19 vaccine and has refused to make a proper advice for pregnant folks to get the vaccine. So, slightly than ensuring persons are protected from an epidemic when pregnant, with the potential facet good thing about reducing the prevalence of autism, the administration is placing as much as $50 million into analysis to find out what causes autism.
However you’ll be able to inform by the best way the administration is explaining this that they’ve some predetermined outcomes in thoughts and that they typically don’t perceive how scientific inquiry works. To get a slice of that $50 million, you must “support analysis of the new data resources to explore the contribution of a variety of health and other factors to the causes of autism.”
By trashing entry to COVID vaccines and making bizarre hobgoblin noises about Tylenol, this administration is making us all sicker by the day.
