Autism numbers in the United States increased in 2022, according to the new CDC report

A New report One of the American centers to combat and prevent diseases (CDC) indicate that autism diagnosis rates are still rising in the United States, which sparked the discourse of infections from government officials, while experts greatly attribute the trend to improve the examination and a better understanding of the condition.

The Disease Control Center said on Tuesday that about 31 years old in the United States in the United States suffers from autism, using data from 14 states and Puerto Rico in 2022. The previous estimate-from 2020-one in 36 was.

Examining the Center for Control of Diseases Health Records and School for Children at the age of eight years of age, because most cases are diagnosed in that era.

Boys are still diagnosed more than girls, and the highest rates among Asian/Pacific islands, original and black.

The Center for Disease Control admits that its report does not cover the entire country or generates “representative proliferation estimates (autism spectrum disorder)”.

The numbers also vary widely by site – from one out of 103 in La Arido, Texas, to one in 19 in California.

The researchers of the Disease Control Center says this may be due to the differences in the availability of services for early detection and evaluation. For example, an initiative in California witnessed hundreds of local pediatricians trained on the screen and referring children to early assessments, and the country has many regional centers that provide assessments.

In response to the report, US Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) claimed Robert F. Kennedy Junior said that “the autism epidemic is spreading”, and that “its risks and costs … represent a thousand times more to our country than Covid-19”.

Why do the numbers rise?

The Autism Society in America says that the rise since 2020 may reflect several factors, including increasing awareness and improving examination and diagnosis.

The organization said in a statement, “This rise in spread does not indicate a” epidemic “as it calls for novels – it reflects the diagnostic progress, and the urgent need for policy decisions rooted in science and the immediate needs of the autism community.”

Canada The latest numbers From 2019, when the Public Health Agency in Canada said one in every 50 children between the ages of 1-17 have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), where males are diagnosed approximately four times of females.

Remy Yergo, head of Canada’s research in critical disability and communication studies at the University of Carlton, says the report of the Disease Control Center is just a “snapshot” and does not give the full story behind the numbers.

Yergeau says doctors have become more harmonious to recognize autism and the various ways in which the traits of autism appear in people.

“People like to make comparisons,” Yergo said. “They say things like,” When I was a child, there was no people with autism. “

For decades, the diagnosis was only given to children with severe problems in social communication or communication and those who have unusual and repeated behaviors.

In the early nineties of the last century, only one in every 10,000 children were diagnosed with autism. Almost at that time, the term has become an acronym of a set of relevant conditions known as ASD and the number of children called as a form of autism in the balloon.

In the first decade of this century, the United States’ estimate increased to one in 150. In 2018, he was one of 44 years old. In 2020, he reached one in every 36.

“Humanity removal” speech

Yergeau says that the “panic language” tends to follow these reports and concerns about the damage of the “Dehumanizing” speech of Kennedy.

They said: “There is a very real way to translate this type of panic into great results for people with autism – such as, to see disability and those with disabilities as something they fear.”

“When people create panic, they create a accompanying speech, we must do anything that can solve it. Bad things can really occur when you follow this special approach of this imagined despair.”

Kennedy pledged last week that the best health agency in the country would determine the cause of autism by September, and promised to “cancel this exposure”, in declaring the concerns of the concerns between medical experts and preachers.

Kennedy and baccalaureate advocates have long pushed a credibility theory About childhood vaccines, referring to a The portfolio called Thimrosal This is no longer in most childhood vaccines, or in theory that autism may be the cumulative effect of multiple vaccines.

Research contracts did not find any vaccines and showed that heredity plays a major role in autism, but there is no “autism gene”. There are no blood or biological tests for autism, which is diagnosed by issuing judgments on a person’s behavior.

The National Institutes of American Health, which spends more than $ 300 million for annual research in the United States, lists some possible risk factors such as prenatal exposure to pesticides, air pollution, severe prematurely or low birth weight, or some mother’s health problems or parents who have an older age.

Kennedy David Gere, a repeated and repeated man, rented a link between vaccines and autism, which was fined by Maryland’s state to practice medicine on a child without a doctor’s license, to lead the autistic research effort.