"To organize a large-scale U.S. effort on behalf of autism and autism epidemiology will take a lot of time," researcher Walter Zahorodny told Newsweek.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces plans to launch a national registry that keeps track of Americans with autism.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya promised that answers and solutions regarding the United States’s surge of autism will come “within the next year,” marking a later date than the September deadline Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,

Autism numbers in the U.S. are on the upswing, with 1 in 31 8-year-olds (3.2%) diagnosed in 2022. In 2000, the ratio was 1 in 150.

No official announcement has been made, though the report comes after Kennedy promised a large research effort to find the cause of autism.