The Trump administration may have linked prenatal use of acetaminophen to increased rates of autism in children, but Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., told Newsmax that he doesn’t want to “jump to any conclusions” because there are a lot of questions that need to be answered.
“When you have research, remember there’s a lot of confounding factors,” McCormick said Tuesday on “Wake Up America.” “Tylenol has been around for a long time in medicine. We use it usually as an antipyretic. In other words, something to treat fever. Not so much pain, but fever.”
He added: “When you do that, that means that you actually have to deal with the fact that some mothers are sick from something. That’s what’s causing their fever. Maybe that’s the cause of autism. … The question is also, are we just having better reporting of signs and symptoms of autism? And now we diagnosis it more often?”
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