{"id":8522,"date":"2025-11-20T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/cassidy-says-vaccines-are-safe-after-cdc-webpage-update\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:02:23","slug":"cassidy-says-vaccines-are-safe-after-cdc-webpage-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/cassidy-says-vaccines-are-safe-after-cdc-webpage-update\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Cassidy and other Republicans have little to say about change to CDC\u2019s position on vaccines and autism"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Cassidy and other Republicans have little to say about change to CDC\u2019s position on vaccines and autism
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WASHINGTON \u2014 Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> broke another promise to Senate health committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) this week. So far, there don\u2019t seem to have been any consequences.<\/p>\n

To secure Cassidy\u2019s decisive confirmation vote, Kennedy committed to maintaining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s position that vaccines do not cause autism. When Cassidy outlined<\/a> the terms of the agreement between the two men, he said Kennedy agreed not to change that assertion on the CDC website.<\/p>\n

This week, Kennedy did just that.<\/p>\n

Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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STAT+: Cassidy and other Republicans have little to say about change to CDC\u2019s position on vaccines and autism WASHINGTON \u2014 Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broke another promise to Senate health committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) this week. So far, there don\u2019t seem to have been any consequences. To secure Cassidy\u2019s decisive confirmation vote, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154,2145,2158,1428,2155,2151,2144,2180,2149,2152,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-cdc","category-congress","category-health","category-pharmaceuticals","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}