00:00As we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism. Horrible, horrible crisis. I want to thank the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics along with me. And we actually met in my office. Is it like 20 years ago, Bobby? It's probably 20 years ago in New York. I was a developer, as you probably heard, and I always had very strong feelings about autism and how it happened and where it came from. And he and I, I don't know. The word got out, and I wouldn't say that people were very understanding of where we were. But it's turning out that we understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it. We think and I say we think because I don't think they were really letting the public know what they knew. Thanks as well to the director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin McCaffrey. These are great people. Administrator of the Centers for Medicine and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and acting Assistant Secretary of HHS, Dr. Dorothy Fink. So thank you all. Thank you, Dorothy, very much. The meteoric rise in autism is among the most alarming public health developments in history. There's never been anything like this. Just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism. So that's not a long time. And I've always heard, you know, they sell a few, but I think it's a lot less time than that. Used to be one in 20,000, then one in 10,000. And I would say that's probably 18 years ago. And now it's. One in 31. But in some areas it's much worse than that, if you can believe it. One in 31 and I gave numbers yesterday for boys, it's one in 12. I was told that's in California where they have, for some reason, a more severe problem. But whether it's one in 12 or one in 31, can you imagine? That's down from one in 20,001 in 10,000. And now we're at the level of one in 12, in some cases for boys, one in 31 overall. So since 2000, autism rates have surged by much more than 400%. Instead of attacking those who ask questions, everyone should be grateful for those who are trying to get the answers to this complex situation. And the first day all of these great doctors behind me were there, I told them, this is what we got. We have to find out. Because when you go from 20000 to 10000 and then you go to 12. You know, there's something artificial there taking something. And by the way, I think I can say that there are certain groups of people that don't take vaccines and don't take any pills that have no autism. That have no autism. Does that tell you something that's currently. Is that a correct statement, by the way? There are some studies that suggests that with the Amish, for example. The Amish? Yeah, virtually. I had no, I heard none. She Bobby wants to be very careful with what he says. And he said, but I'm not so careful with what I say. But you have certain groups, the Amish, as an example. They have essentially no autism. First, effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of said, well, let's see how we say that as head of many often acetaminophen said okay. Which is basically commonly known as Tylenol. During pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism. So taking Tylenol. Is not good. All right, I'll say it. It's not good. For this reason, they are strongly recommended that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever. That you feel you can tough it out. You can't do it. I guess there's that. It's a small number of cases, I think. But if you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're going to have to do. You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly. Can be something that's very dangerous to the woman's health. In other words, a fever that's very, very dangerous and ideally a doctor's decision, because I think you shouldn't take it and you shouldn't take it during the entire pregnancy. They may tell you that toward the end of the pregnancy, you shouldn't take it during the day and you shouldn't give the child a Tylenol every time he goes a spa and he goes and has a shot, you shouldn't give a Tylenol to that child. Well, all pregnant women should talk to their doctors for more information about limiting the use of this medication while pregnant. So ideally, you don't take it at all. But if you have to if you can't tough it out, if he has a problem, you're going to end up doing it. The other thing that I can tell you that I'll say that they will maybe say it a little bit later date. But I think when you go for the shot, you do it over a five time period, take it over five times or four times, but you take it in smaller doses and you spread it out over a period of years. And they pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies. It's a disgrace. I don't see it. I don't. I think it has. I think it's very bad. They're pumping it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess 80 different blends, and they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol and all the vaccines, it would be good. Instead of one visit where they pump the baby, load it up with stuff. You do it over a period of four times or five times. I was I mean, I've been so into this issue for so many years just because I couldn't understand how how a thing like this could happen. And, you know, it's artificially induced. It's not like something that when you when you go from all of those, you know, healthy babies to a point where I don't even know structurally if a country can afford it. And that's the least of the problems to have families destroyed over. This is just so, so terrible. I also. And we've already done this. We want no mercury in the vaccine. We want no aluminum in the vaccine. The MMR, I think, should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel the mumps, measles and and the three should be taken separately. And it seems to be that when you mix them, there could be a problem. So there's no downside in taking them separately. In fact, they think it's better. So let it be separate. The chicken pox is already separate because when that got mixed in, I guess they made it for for a while. It really was bad. So they make chicken pox individually. They're okay. When you mix them, something maybe happens. So there's no downside in doing it. It's not like, oh, if you do it bad things. No, it's only good. And it may not have that much of an impact, but it may have a big impact. So let those be taken separately and then. Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted. There's no reason to give a baby that's almost just born hepatitis B. So I would say wait till the baby is 12 years old and formed and take hepatitis B, And I think if you do those things, it's going to be a whole different it's going to be a revolution in a positive sense in the country. The FDA will be updating the label of an existing drug to reflect potential benefits in reducing some autism symptoms symptoms. This gives hope to the many parents with autistic children that it may be possible to improve their lives. That's one of the things that I'm very, very happy about. This was mostly going to be on how not to have the child affected, but we've learned some pretty good things about certain elements of genius that can be given to a baby and the baby can get better and in some cases may be substantially better. Not going to be easy, but may be a lot easier if it didn't happen in the first place, as these great parents fully understand. Right. They fully understand. I feel so terribly for. I have so many friends with autistic children. It's just it's a tough situation. Finally, to help reach the ultimate goal of ending the autism fever, the NIH will be announcing 13 major grant awards from the autism data science initiatives. And to be honest with you, to me, that's the least important. It's not even a money thing at this point. There's so much money. But they have to do and they have to move quickly. They when the alternative is that nothing bad can happen. Let's do it. Now, I was just saying to Bobby and the group, let's do it now. Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. But with Tylenol, Don't take it. Don't take it. And if you can't live, if you fever's so bad, you have to take one, because there's no alternative to that, sadly. First question, what can you take instead? It's actually there's not an alternative to that. And as you know, other other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean, they've been proven bad with the aspirins and the ad bills and others. Right. And they've been proven bad. So I'd like to ask Bobby to get up to the podium and say a few words. And then Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. McCaffrey. Dr. Oz, Dr. Fink, followed by two incredible mothers that have experienced firsthand what this country is going through, what parts of the world are going through. And I will say there are parts of the world that don't take Tylenol. I mean, there's a rumor and I don't know if it's so or not, that Cuba, they don't have Tylenol because they don't have the money for Tylenol and they have virtually no autism. Okay. Tell me about that one. And there are other parts of the world where they don't have Tylenol, where they don't have autism. That tells you a lot. And I want to say it right now. And, you know, the way I look at it, don't take it. Don't take it. There's there's no downside in not taking it. So I'd like to ask Bobby to come up and say a few words. I hope I didn't ruin his day, but that's the way I feel. I've been very strong on this subject for a long time. You know, life has common sense, too, and there's a lot of common sense in this. And I wish things like this were brought up and this group has worked so hard on it. But I'd like to be a little bit more a little speedier in the process of a recommendation, because there's no harm in going quicker. There's absolutely no harm. At worst, there's no harm. Thank you very much, Bobby. Thank you, Mr. President. And to meet the president's challenge, I ordered HHS to launch unprecedented all agency effort to identify all causes of autism, including toxic and pharmaceutical exposures. At President Trump's urging. And I urge FDA, CDC and see him as are turning over every challenge, identify the ideology of the autism epidemic and how patients and parents can prevent and reverse this alarming trend. We have broken down the traditional silos that have long separated these agencies, and we have Fast-Track Research and Guidance. Historically, NIH has focused almost solely on politically save and entirely fruitless research about the genetic drivers of autism and how it would be like studying the genetic drivers of lung cancer without looking at cigarettes. And that's what NIH has been doing for 20 years. As a result, we don't have an answer to this critical question. Despite the cataclysmic impact of the epidemic on our nation's children, we are now replaced. We are now replacing the institutional culture of politicized science and corruption with evidence based medicine and research. Teams are currently testing multiple hypotheses with no Harry off limits. We promised transparency as we uncover the potential causes and treatments, and we will notify the public regularly of our progress. Today, we are announcing two important findings from our autism. Works are vital for parents to know as they make these decisions. First, HHS will act on acetaminophen. The FDA is responding to clinical and laboratory studies and suggest a potential association between an infant use during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including later diagnosis for ADHD and autism. Scientists Biological mechanisms linking prenatal exposure to altered brain development. We have also evaluated the contrary studies that show no association.

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Trump Tells Pregnant Women to Avoid Tylenol Over Autism Fear (Full Trump Remarks)

President Donald Trump said his administration was linking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism and urging pregnant women to largely avoid the medication. “So taking Tylenol is not good — I’ll say it — it’s not good. For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary,” Trump said Monday at a White House event alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his health secretary. Monday’s announcement was the latest example of how Kennedy and Trump have sought to upend health guidance and practices in their administration. While there have been numerous studies into the cause of autism, decades of scientific research have yet to identify just one cause for the condition. (Source: Bloomberg)