Donald Trump’s administration is on Monday expected to tie pregnant women’s use of the popular medicine Tylenol – sold generically as acetaminophen in the US and paracetamol elsewhere in the world – to a risk of autism, contrary to medical guidelines, the Washington Post has reported.
The US president teased the announcement during the memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sunday, telling the crowd “I think we found an answer to autism.” On Saturday, the president said the planned announcement would be “one of the most important things that we will do”. Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has recently claimed that the US is in the grip of an “autism epidemic” fuelled by “environmental toxins”.
