The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to award money to an institute to look into any association between vaccines and autism, according to a newly published notice.
The CDC said in the notice, which was published on Sept. 11, that it intends to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “for Investigation of the Association between Vaccinations and Autism Prevalence.”
It said that Rensselaer, which is located in Troy, New York, has a “unique ability to link children to maternal cohorts using proprietary databases and de-identified data sets, enabling advanced statistical analyses within the project’s timeframe.”
The timeframe was not included in the notice….