Medical experts slammed Donald Trump’s advice for pregnant women to “fight like hell” to avoid taking a common painkiller because his administration claims using the drug could lead to autism.
Neurosurgeon and CNN’s medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta said he was gobsmacked watching the president repeat, “Don’t take Tylenol, don’t take it,” during a press conference on Monday with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to publicize a dubious link between Tylenol and autism in children.
“It‘s just, it‘s so bizarre,” Gupta said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday, saying there was indeed a risk telling expectant mothers to do their best to “tough it out” and not take Tylenol if they have a fever.
“The way that people are getting medical advice and probably getting very confused,” Gupta s