autism

Dr. Marilyn Augustyn from Boston Medical Center joins Current to discuss why more children are being diagnosed with autism now and how the pandemic impacted CDC data.

For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released the new estimates of how common autism is. It estimates that 1 in 36 children who were age 8 in 2020 had autism. That’s up from 1 in...