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Investing.com -- U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced plans to transfer the monitoring of U.S. autism rates to the recently established Administration for a Healthy America. This decision was communicated during Kennedy’s first national press conference as health secretary on Wednesday.
According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly report released on Tuesday, the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among 8-year-olds in the U.S. in 2022 was 32.2 per 1,000, or 1 in every 31. This is an increase from 1 in 36 in 2020 and 1 in 44 in 2018.
Kennedy noted that the publication of this study was delayed by two years. In his statement, he said, "One of the things that we’re going to do is we move this function to the Administration for a Healthy American." This move is expected to streamline the monitoring and reporting of autism rates in the U.S.
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