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Source: @www.cidrap.umn.edu

From the article: "The Trump administration is withdrawing the nomination of physician and former Florida congressman David Weldon, MD, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to media reports.

"Weldon, who served in Congress from 1995 to 2009, was scheduled to have a confirmation hearing today before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). Weldon was likely to face many questions from committee members about his views on vaccines, given his history of questioning the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and his past criticism of the CDC over vaccine safety research. In 2007, Weldon coauthored a bill that would have removed vaccine safety research from the CDC.

"Weldon, like Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has long promoted the theory that the MMR vaccine is linked to an increase in autism diagnoses, despite multiple studies that have found no such association. As Stat reports, Weldon appeared in a 2016 documentary that suggested the federal health agencies had conspired to cover up the link between the MMR vaccine and autism. "
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/trump-withdraws-nominee-cdc-director