Bill Cassidy

This public health crisis is touching every American family.

It is robbing our children of possibility, our workforce of productivity, and our nation of security.

Senator Cassidy, you're a physician.

I'm a physician.

The reality is that we have an autism crisis that's increasing.

And this is devastating to many families.

And we do not know, as a medical community, what causes autism.

I do accept that evidence.

I also think that science has never settled.

And I think that the effort to look at comprehensive cumulative exposures of our exposome into what is causing autism is important.

And I look forward to seeing those results and sharing the best public health information with the American people.

This is an easy one.

I support the CDC's guidance on the flu vaccine.

I've said it.

You're a doctor.

I believe vaccines save lives.

At the population level, I certainly think that it does.

Some have been scared to vaccinate their children because they've been told incorrectly that vaccines cause autism.

Do you believe that vaccines, whether individually or collectively, contribute to autism?

Senator Cassidy, you're a physician.