HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has not publicly commented regarding reports of the federal government enacting a national autism registry.

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

The latest report on autism from the CDC found that autism rates in 8-year-olds rose from 1 in 36 in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022, continuing a long-term uptick in diagnoses of the condition. That rate is nearly five times higher than in 2000, when the agency first began collecting data on the disorder.