Marin County Defies CDC Vaccine Schedule, Reports Record-Breaking Decline in Autism Rates
The first US county to ever experience a decrease in childhood autism rates has been pinpointed, says economic researcher Toby Rogers, who explains that starting in 2000, parents in Marin County, California began to do something differently.
Rather than blindly following the childhood vaccine schedule of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the parents got together and decided to defy the CDC due to their concerns about safety and the number of shots on the schedule.
Cynthia Nevison is the authority on autism prevalence in California.
She found that autism in children born post-2000 to wealthy white and Asian parents in Marin County plateaued and then declined.
To put this in perspective, this has never happened before in the history of autism in the US.
Nevison outlined her findings in a 2020 peer-reviewed study conducted with William Parker and published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
California Autism Prevalence by County and Race/Ethnicity: Declining Trends Among Wealthy Whites
Abstract
County-level ASD prevalence was estimated using an age-resolved snapshot from the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) for birth years 1993-2013. ASD prevalence increased among all children across birth years 1993-2000 but plateaued or declined thereafter among whites from wealthy counties. In contrast, ASD rates increased continuously across 1993-2013 among whites from lower income counties and Hispanics from all counties. Both white ASD prevalence and rate of change in prevalence were inversely correlated to county income from birth year 2000-2013 but not 1993-2000. These disparate trends within the dataset suggest that wealthy white parents, starting around 2000, may have begun opting out of DDS in favor of private care and/or making changes that effectively lowered their children's risk of ASD.
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/marin-county-defies-cdc-vaccine-schedule-reports-record-breaking-decline-in-autism-rates/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32193763/