Trump administration to award a no-bid contract on research into vaccines and autism
NEW YORK (AP) – Federal Health officials, according to a government supply notification, plans to give a contract to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a connection between Vacations and Autism.
Troy, New York, Engineering School, children and mothers connecting data in the “unique ability” is receiving the contract. recognition Published this week.
The officials of the Ministry of Health and Human Services did not immediately answer questions about the notification, including how much the contract was or exactly what the researchers wanted to do.
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced In April, a “great test and research effort to determine the cause autism Until this month. That repeatedly He tried to connect Vaccines of the situation.
A RPI Biotechnology Engineering Professor Juergen Hahn, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques To search for patterns Blood samples of children with autism. RPI officials, accepting the intended grant in a statement, Hahn is famous for the quality and meticulousness of the research, “he said.
“If this project is given, he plans to publish the results of his work at the end of the project.”
Associated Press left messages looking for comments from Hahn.
Alycia Halladay, who supervised the research activities and given for the Autism Science Foundation, said that the notification brought many questions to the agenda.
The RPI is unknown to have a special access to the data on such a question in the field, and said, “There is no obvious choice, Hal Haldayay said.
The authority is not clear how the contract fits the other autism research that the government can plan.
But perhaps the biggest question is why he spends money on such a study.
Scientists made a connection between vaccinations and autism, and they could not find any evidence of increasing autism compared to those who were vaccinated.
“The question has been examined several times by worldwide researchers using millions of people for 20 years and has never been a reliable relationship between vaccines and autism,” he said.
Those who spend dozens of years to investigate autism I couldn’t find a single reason. It plays a genetic role, and other factors include a child’s father’s age, the weight of the mother and the diabetes, or that it is not exposed to certain chemicals.
Halladay may go to “other important research questions ilin, including genetic and environmental factor studies, regardless of the project.
“I think this is the most annoying part,” he said.
HHS officials have been trying to use the vaccine security data compiled by the CDC for months to search for damages that may be due to shooting. Kennedy accused CDC leaders of stoning these efforts, but the real obstacle was something else.
Approximately one dozen medical research institution collects vaccine safety data and notifies CDC. The authority said that the contracts that extend about twenty years are not CDC on the data – that HHS has not yet received these assets.
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