In a Sept. 22 press conference that he had billed as “one of the biggest [medical] announcements … in the history of our country,” President Donald Trump touted an unproven link between autism and the use of Tylenol, or acetaminophen, during pregnancy.

* Trump repeatedly told pregnant women not to take Tylenol and to “tough it out,” due to an association between the medication and autism. But the medication has not been established to cause autism, and some research indicates it likely doesn’t. Untreated pain or fever during pregnancy can be harmful to both mother and child. * Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary claimed the dean of Harvard University’s public health school had said “there is a causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelop

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