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1 in 36 Kids Have Autism, CDC Says — Critics Slam Agency’s Failure to Investigate Causes

Guest Post by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

One in 36 (2.8%) 8-year-old children — 4% of boys and 1% of girls — have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), based on an analysis of data from 2020, published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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One in 36 (2.8%) 8-year-old children — 4% of boys and 1% of girls — have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), based on an analysis of data from 2020, published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The latest findings, reported in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, show an increase from the last report, which found 1 in 44 8-year-olds (2.3%) had autism in 2018.

Since the CDC started collecting the data, prevalence estimates have skyrocketed from 1 in 150 in 2000, to today’s estimate of 1 in 36 children.

The trend has persisted for decades. Autism prevalence in the 1990s, which was 1 in 1,000 children, already represented a tenfold increase over the condition’s estimated prevalence in the 1970s.

Commenting on today’s report, Mark Blaxill, from the Executive Leadership Team at Health Choice, told The Defender:

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I interview Robert F. Kennedy, Jr on VSRF

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

I only had 3 hours of sleep the night before, so I was a little slow on why RFK Jr. never saw any autistic adults his age: it’s because they only started vaccinating kids aggressively well after he was born. So the excuse that they give that the higher rates of autism is simply due to better diagnosis ability is false. The epidemic of autism coincided with vaccine rollouts.

I think you’ll really enjoy this interview.

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