Kennedy Jr., acknowledged that he directed the CDC to change its statement. Credit: AP/Rebecca Noble A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement retracted a longstanding statement on its website that vaccines do not cause autism.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage about autism and vaccines has updated its information about the link between autism and vaccinations, no longer stating that there is no connection between the two.

The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's guidance that there may be links between vaccines and autism poses health risks, doctors say.

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.

CDC changed a webpage to suggest vaccines may cause autism, creating confusion among parents. Pediatricians say hundreds of studies have disproven the link.

CDC changes stance on vaccines and autism link after Department of Health and Human Services launches comprehensive assessment of potential autism causes.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told The New York Times in an interview that he personally directed the U.S.

"CDC’s recent statement regarding vaccines and autism is inconsistent with decades of research and more than 40 carefully designed and scientifically sound studies involving 5.6 million people that show no link or association between vaccines and autism," the collaborative said.

A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Changing its web page, the CDC now promotes the myth that vaccines are linked to autism despite years of research refuting the claim.

Public health experts, doctors and scientists have decried the update as the kind of misinformation the CDC has fought for decades.