New federal findings linking acetaminophen use during pregnancy with autism highlight the urgent need for more research into the disorder’s causes and treatments, and answers are needed about the claims, former White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told Newsmax on Tuesday.
“The moms are frustrated,” Birx said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “First we tell them it’s a spectrum disorder, so it’s not really a precise diagnosis in their hands. And then we’re telling them all the things that it’s not caused by.”
Still, Birx said that, by her understanding, “there is this relationship that has been demonstrated with Tylenol. That doesn’t mean it caused it. It also means that maybe those moms were sick and they took Tylenol. Maybe it was linked to a virus. We really don’t know precisely right now.”
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