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Percentage of U.S. adults who thought it was accurate that there was no evidence of a link between measles vaccines and getting autism in 2018 and 2024

Characteristic	Very accurate	Somewhat accurate	Not sure (volunteered)	Somewhat inaccurate	Very inaccurate
October 2018*	35%	37%	2%	18%	8%
April 2024	41%	32%	3%	18%	6%

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Release date

June 2024

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Region

United States

Survey time period

April 18 to 24, 2024

Number of respondents

1,522 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

Original statement: "The CDC has said that there is no evidence of a link between measles vaccine and getting autism."

* "The 2018 survey data comes from the first wave of the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Resistance to Vaccines Longitudinal Survey (RVLS), a panel of 3,005 U.S. adults, conducted by NORC, an independent research company. This wave was fielded between September 21, 2018, and October 6, 2018, and has a margin of sampling error of ± 2.6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level."

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A survey of U.S. adults from 2024 found that around 73 percent of respondents thought it was very accurate or somewhat accurate that there is no evidence of a link between measles vaccines and getting autism, as stated by the CDC. However, around a quarter of U.S. adults do not accept the CDC's statement that there is no evidence linking the measles vaccine to getting autism. Vaccinations against measles have resulted in significant decreases in cases and deaths from the disease in the United States. However, vaccine hesitancy and skepticism have been blamed for an increasing number of measles cases.