Finn Gomez/Getty Images via CNN NewsourceBy Sarah Owermohle, Katherine Dillinger, CNN(CNN) — The US Senate voted 51-44 on Wednesday to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general and retired US Coast Guard officer, was nominated for the job in April. The agency was then overseen by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who is also director of the US National Institutes of Health. “While there have been changes to the CDC website, any assertion that there is a link between autism and vaccines is wrong. We don’t know what causes autism, but study after study shows that it is not vaccines,” he said.