Trump – who has beforehand mentioned Kennedy could be allowed to “go wild” on well being – mentioned his well being secretary choose wouldn’t “reinvent the wheel completely”.
He added: “He isn’t going to upset any system.”
However on autism, he continued: “Anyone has to search out out. In case you return 25 years in the past, you had little or no autism. Now you could have it.
“If you discuss autism, as a result of it was introduced up, and also you take a look at the quantity now we have in the present day versus 20 or 25 years in the past, it is fairly scary.”
Scientists have attributed the rise in autism diagnoses to improved screening strategies whereas saying it’s attributable to a fancy combine of things, together with genetics, surroundings and circumstances throughout being pregnant and start.