The U.S. is in the grips of a historic measles surge, with more than 3,000 measles cases reported in 45 states across the country since the start of 2025. So far, two unvaccinated children have died from the disease. At least 920 people have been infected in South Carolina, and a similar number in Texas. In both states, nearly all infected individuals were unvaccinated.

Now Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is urging Americans to get the measles vaccine as the country is on the brink of losing its measles elimination status.

“Take the vaccine, please. We have a solution for our problem,” Oz said on CNN’s State of Union on Sunday. “Not all illnesses are equally dangerous, and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses. But measles is one you should get your vaccine [for],” Oz said.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    While he is correct, he is also the wrong messenger. This is like as if Trump started quoting bible verses about helping the poor and offering the other cheek.

    Even though it makes sense, I would be filled with a profound sense of mistrust about their motivations. Is Dr. Oz selling vaccines at a massive markup or something?

    …get your vaccine, preferably without the Regime’s “help”. The odds of them fucking things up is disturbingly high.

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    begs Americans to take the measles vaccine as infections soar

    I beg everybody look into the stats more, the number to treat, the [“side”] effects, the money, the confounding causal variables, the historical timing, the graphs, the variations, the adjuvants, etc…

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    You wouldn’t have to beg people if you didn’t fund and propagate medical misinformation? Just a thought…

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    Go fuck yourself oz. You helped and continue to help this happen. It was certain the first time we let these trash humans decide not to let their kids get the vaccines. They put people in jail for letting their kids walk a block to the store on their own but these horrible people get a free pass.

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      Measles is spreading because this administration made vaccines a terrible word when Trump was in charge in his first term with COVID. Trump and his group of ass-faces are WHY America is in this crisis.

      The US led the world in Covid deaths because vaccines were why people were dying, not a preventable disease. Now people who have hitched their wagon to that orange turd want to try and right the ship?

      Fuck off, Oz. People are dying in the most horrible ways because of people like you just wanting an easy pay day siding with this Trump administration. You’re the problem. Too late now to go back on that.

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      You might have meant wretched. “retched” is a single-syllable word meaning dry heaved. I mean, I will believe you if you told me he makes you gag.

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        I’ve noticed an uptick in people spelling it without the w, and even changing the spelling to “ratchet”. I’m not sure if it’s a joke and at thins point, I’m too afraid to ask.

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          Hey, don’t get retched, pass me that wretched ratchet, I got some rat shit on my shirt and now I’m also retched.

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          We are talking about the removal of a silent W which is probably there because someone who wore breeches wanted to make literacy harder for the poor.

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        That was a typo and I did mean wretched, however it’s not impossible that he came into existence by being vomited up by some Eldritch entity.

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    In today’s episode of “Thing ‘Conservatives’ warned would happen, happens. Conservatives shocked…”

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      Vaccines are bad.

      USA leads world in COVID deaths

      Vaccines are bad.

      Measles outbreaks across 46 states, could lose eliminated status.


      I feel like there’s a theme here with Trump administrations.

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        In all fairness to the administration, if they kill everybody in the country nobody will be around to vote against them.

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      Oz was more scientific, he sold herbs and feathers. This would be a two blue, three red feather prescription.

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    You know what? Just don’t take it. Go die of fucking measels if that’s what you want you gormless moroons.

    I wish they could develop and die of measels without spreading it to innocents and children.

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      The problem is, it’s almost never the people making the decision that get sick. It’s usually their kids. I don’t like punishing the kids for the sake of proving the parents wrong.

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      The problem is that as effective as vaccines are, they still have a failure rate. A certain number of VACCINATED individuals are still going to get break-through infections. Usually the incidents of a disease are so rare it never affects the vaccinated, but in a break-out like this, a lot more vulnerable vaxxed individuals have a lot more contact with sick people, and they catch it. That gives the disease the opportunity to mutate around the known vaccines, rendering the current vaccines useless.

      They aren’t just threatening other anti-vaxx dummies, they are affecting ALL of us.

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        Yea man I know.

        I wish I could isolate myself from these morons forever.

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          That’s why we have to characterize them as disgusting, dirty, and dangerous, and shun them from normal society.

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    What!? A vaccine? Not a supplement? Oz, it’s about the money, not the people. You should know that by now. Now mix up some Ginseng and some Ginger and sell, sell sell! /s

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      Now mix up some Ginseng and some Ginger and sell, sell sell! /s

      Then steep the resulting powder in gin to do an alcohol based extraction. Market it as Gin3! All natural cure-all!

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    Just saw a news article. Someone in my area with measles and contagious went to the gym, a couple of grocery stores, out to eat. People don’t give a fuck about anyone else.

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      A percentage of American have been emboldened with “ain’t my problem”.

      It happened when they made COVID-19 political.

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        Nothing like making everyone’s health and well-being a political hot-button issue. I missed the day that every politician suddenly knows more than every doctor and research scientist combined.

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    Oprah has promoted so many evil people. She’s culpable for so many deaths. Don’t look up the time she had John of God on her show.

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    Fark Dr Oz. Over a million Americans died during Covid 1.0. and he hitched himself to this plague wagon administration anyway. Denounce RFK and resign, you cowardly fark.