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.
What happened next has left researchers stunned, as Rogers explains.
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.
