"That thousands of infants may have been healthier had the election not occurred is incredibly troubling," said Caitlin Patler, associate professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.
Ok, I hate the orange Cheeto as much as the next rational person, but this seems like grasping at correlation to me. There are thousands of despicable things he's said and done to choose from.
The study itself highlights that this is a correlation, not evidence of direct causation. Still, evidence of a correlation with worsened outcomes for newborns is concerning in itself.