CNN’s Dr. Gupta: ‘Is There a Correlation Between Vaccines and Autism? ... No There’s Not’

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GUPTA: “But, yeah, this idea that, look, there was a question mark, could vaccines be related to autism? We‘re talking in the late 90s this came up from a now debunked paper, but it still came up and it raised people‘s questions and their concerns. So it was studied. That‘s the point that I think Senator Cassidy was making last week. You asked for data. Well, that data has been collected. And we talk about huge data, hundreds of thousands of kids they basically looked and they said, 'Well, let‘s look at the ones who were vaccinated. Let‘s look at the children who were not vaccinated. Let‘s follow them for a certain number of years. Let‘s exclude certain factors, like did they have a family history, did they have some sort of risk factor, what was their age at the time of vaccination. Let‘s control for all of that and ask a basic question: Is there a correlation between vaccines and autism?' And the answer has come back repeatedly, in many studies, like the one you just saw on the screen, no, there‘s not. So, you know, this idea that people say, 'Well, if you show me the studies, then I‘m willing to change my mind,' well, they‘ve seen the studies and it doesn‘t appear that the minds have been changed on the idea that vaccines might cause autism. So where do you go next? What does that mean? I think that‘s what we‘re about to sort of see how that unfolds."