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 FDA ignored warnings about the use of the painkiller during pregnancy.
Trump last month held a press conference where he pushed unproven claims linking Tylenol and certain vaccines to autism.
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 the advice of their own doctors rather than anything the president said.
