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Nicole Saphier

52:42 - 53:01

"I do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism."

“I do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism.”
Speaker
Nicole Saphier
Timestamp
52:42 – 53:01
Transcript
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Murkowski): Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and Nicole Saphier, of New Jersey, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Alaska News
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September 16, 2026

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I do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism. And should a parent be vaccinating their child for—. With the MMR? I think that the recommendation is to combat what we are seeing right now. The best tool we have to combat these infections, to save the most lives, and to also create population herd immunity is vaccination against the MMR.

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