Trump’s unproven claims on acetaminophen and autism

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An unproven link

President Donald Trump tied the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism and made several other claims about vaccines during a Monday evening news conference.

PBS News' William Brangham discussed those claims and the concerns about what the president said with Alycia Halladay of the Autism Science Foundation and Jennifer Nuzzo of Brown University’s School of Public Health.

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