Trump says parents should vaccinate their children as measles outbreaks develop

While hundreds of people at two California universities are quarantined after being potentially exposed to measles, a highly contagious virus thought to have been eliminated 19 years ago, President Donald Trump urges parents to vaccinate their children. The president's latest comments seem to be a brutal reversal from his earlier attempts to warn about vaccines amid controversial and beloved claims that they are linked to autism.

"They must be vaccinated" politico reported Trump told reporters in front of the White House when asked what he would like to tell parents about the measles outbreak that occurred on Friday. "Vaccinations are so important, it's really the case now, they need to be vaccinated."

But Trump has not always been a strong supporter of vaccination. In fact, he has already promoted the idea many times denied that vaccines cause autism. "Mbadive inoculations combined with young children is the cause of sharp increase in autism, "Trump tweeted in August 2012. He repeated a similar argument on Twitter in 2014, writing:" A healthy young child goes to the doctor, gets pumped with a mbadive injection of many vaccines, does not feel well and change – AUTISM. Many of these cases! "

While he was running for president in 2015, Trump was seeking to develop his apparent anti-vaxxer ideas, declaring to CNN's Jake Tapper during a first Republican presidential debate organized by the cable TV channel: " Autism has become an epidemic ".

"Twenty-five years ago, 35 years ago, you look at statistics, not even very close, they are totally out of control," he said about autism rates. "I'm totally in favor of vaccines, but I want smaller doses over a longer period." Trump went on to say that the babies were "pumped" with vaccine doses that "look like real" for horses, not for children. "It also seemed to imply that he personally knew many of the people whose children had developed autism after being vaccinated.

"We had so many cases, people working for me," CNN said during the debate. "The other day, two years, two and a half years, a child, a beautiful child went to be vaccinated and came back, and a week later, he had a huge fever, became very, very sick, now autistic."

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