TIME's April 30 reporting on the CDC's revised autism-and-vaccines page — the November 2025 rewrite that asserted "the claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim" — found the institutional rebukes from the AMA, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Medical Association are still on the record and still being repeated. [1] CIDRAP's parallel coverage notes the medical societies' framing has hardened: the page is "no longer trustworthy" as a standard reference for clinicians.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America's November 2025 statement remains the cleanest documentary marker. [2] The IDSA wrote that the agency's editorial change "departs from the body of scientific evidence" and warned that the rewrite "creates confusion at exactly the moment public-health communication needs to be unambiguous." Six months later, the wording on the CDC page has not been reversed.

CIDRAP frames the question more sharply: this is not a scientific finding entering the page; it is HHS doctrine creeping into the CDC's editorial layer. [3] The studies that informed the previous CDC text — the Institute of Medicine reviews, the Danish cohort work, the meta-analyses — have not been updated. The science the page was supposed to communicate has not changed. The voice has.

The on-the-ground effect, the medical societies argue, is measurable: a measles outbreak past 1,800 cases — 92% of patients unvaccinated or of unknown status — runs alongside a CDC page that no longer says, plainly, that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. Two clocks. Same agency.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago