President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off an all-caps warning urging women not to take Tylenol while pregnant or give it to their kids, while also scaremongering about common childhood vaccines.
Trump did a copy-and-paste job of his own September post railing against Tylenol as well as the MMR, chickenpox and hepatitis B vaccines (which he misspelled as “HEPATITAS”), then added a link to a new report in the conservative Daily Caller that claimed the Food and Drug Administration ignored warnings about the use of the painkiller during pregnancy.
Medical experts at the time slammed the advice, saying it’s not backed by evidence. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, for example, called Trump’s guidance “irresponsible” and “unsettling.”
Most experts urged pregnant women to follow their doctors’ advice rather than the president’s.
Trump at the time suggested the experts have conflicts, while also admitting they could be correct.
“That’s the establishment, they’re funded by lots of different groups and, you know what, maybe they’re right,” Trump said. “I don’t think they are.”
Trump’s latest medical advice was widely panned on social media:
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