A day after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said that claims about vaccines not causing autism are not ‘evidence-based’, the US Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Friday asserted that he personally instructed the agency to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.

Earlier, the CDC's website said that studies have shown there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder. However, on Thursday, updating the webpage, CDC said, “The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

In an interview to New York Times, Kennedy Jr said he ordered the CDC to change its guidance in part because high-qual

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