David Geier, an antivaccine activist recently hired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has begun hunting for proof federal officials hid evidence that inoculations cause autism, Liz Essley Whyte and Dominique Mosbergen of The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Geier is seeking Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, data that antivaccine activists claim was buried because it showed a link between vaccines and autism, the sources added. Publicly traded companies that could be impacted include Moderna (MRNA), Pfizer (PFE), BioNTech (BNTX), Novavax (NVAX), AstraZeneca (AZN), Bristol Myers (BMY), Eli Lilly (LLY), GSK (GSK), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Merck (MRK), Novartis (NVS), Roche (RHHBY), and Sanofi (SNY).
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