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"[Trump's] dumb comments around vaccines hurt, but his secretary of [Health and Human Services], his [Food and Drug Administration] commissioner don’t share those views," Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, who also sits on the Health Committee, told Newsweek. "Hopefully, he’s so distracted on the Mueller investigation and he’s just forgotten about the idiotic things he’s said about vaccines."
Before he became president, Trump often pushed the false and debunked conspiracy theory that vaccines could lead to autism.
“Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!” Trump tweeted in 2014. In the run-up to the election, he met with prominent anti-vax campaigners, including discredited former British doctor and anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield. The White House did not respond to Newsweek's inquiry regarding the president's current beliefs on vaccines.
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Both Trump and Paul have suggested that spacing vaccinations over a period of time rather than receiving them all at once would be better. There has been no evidence to support such a claim.
Amid measles outbreak, Donald Trump, Rand Paul among those in Washington with history of anti-vax comments
Before he became president, Trump often pushed the false and debunked conspiracy theory that vaccines could lead to autism.
“Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!” Trump tweeted in 2014. In the run-up to the election, he met with prominent anti-vax campaigners, including discredited former British doctor and anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield. The White House did not respond to Newsweek's inquiry regarding the president's current beliefs on vaccines.
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Both Trump and Paul have suggested that spacing vaccinations over a period of time rather than receiving them all at once would be better. There has been no evidence to support such a claim.
Amid measles outbreak, Donald Trump, Rand Paul among those in Washington with history of anti-vax comments