Trump, 79, Posts Deranged Medical Recommendation at 4am

Donald Trump assumed the function of obstetrician Sunday as he doled out bonkers medical recommendation for girls in a recycled Reality Social submit.

The 79-year-old president, who’s at present abroad in Malaysia, rattled off a listing of purported well being directives in an all-caps submit at 4:19 a.m. native time.

“Pregnant Girls, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON,” Trump wrote. “BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS [sic] B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT”

Trump’s submit is a verbatim copy of 1 he made precisely a month in the past, save a hyperlink to an article by the right-wing Every day Caller web site titled, “FDA Stayed Silent As Inside Studies About Potential Tylenol Dangers Piled Up,” which highlights his September announcement with Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blaming pregnant girls’s Tylenol use for a rise in autism amongst younger kids.

Trump’s Tylenol claims have been instantly debunked by almost each main authorities and well being group. The American School of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that the drug is likely one of the solely secure ache relievers for pregnant girls.

In accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics, Tylenol is secure for younger kids when taken accurately underneath the steerage of a pediatrician, and that kids youthful than 12 weeks of age shouldn’t be given the remedy until instructed by a health care provider.

The commander-in-chief’s different well being suggestions within the Reality Social submit even contradict the CDC’s personal steerage.

Whereas Trump, who has no background in drugs, recommends giving the Hepatitis B vaccine to kids aged 12 and older, the CDC web site says “all infants at delivery” ought to get the shot.

Furthermore, the which means of Trump’s instruction to “TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS” is unclear; the Hepatitis B vaccine is a sequence of two or three photographs, in response to CDC.

Public well being consultants have additionally pushed again towards Trump’s name to separate the mix measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) into particular person photographs, arguing that it will not make the vaccine safer whereas making it much less doubtless for use.

Trump isn’t any stranger to meting out doubtful medical recommendation, having as soon as prompt injecting disinfectant into the physique to deal with COVID-19 whereas serving as president through the pandemic in 2020.

However the overwhelming majority of People are skeptical about his claims linking Tylenol to autism in newborns, in response to a KFF ballot. Simply 4 % of People believed the declare was “undoubtedly true,” whereas 35 % mentioned it was “undoubtedly false.”