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erronis

(23,111 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 08:24 PM 2 hrs ago

'Take the vaccine, please,' Dr Oz urges amid rising measles cases in US

Source: The Guardian

A senior US public health official called on Americans to get vaccinated against measles as outbreaks continue in multiple states and concerns grow that the country could lose its measles elimination designation. Dr Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, spoke in support on Sunday of the measles vaccine.

"Take the vaccine, please," said Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "We have a solution for our problem."

"Not all illnesses are equally dangerous and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses," he told CNN's State of the Union. "But measles is one you should get your vaccine."

His boss, health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, has a long history of questioning both the safety and necessity of vaccines.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/dr-mehmet-oz-measles-vaccine



I hope 'Dr' Oz got permission from Miller and Leavitt to take this position.

He tried to get in touch with his boss rfkjr who was apparently involved with some other 'experiment'.
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'Take the vaccine, please,' Dr Oz urges amid rising measles cases in US (Original Post) erronis 2 hrs ago OP
Is RFK Jr going to accuse Oz of promoting autism? Norrrm 2 hrs ago #1
Fuck off, you quack. paleotn 1 hr ago #2

paleotn

(21,844 posts)
2. Fuck off, you quack.
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 08:41 PM
1 hr ago

Day late and a dollar short, jackass. If he and his ilk had been saying this all along, there wouldn't be a goddamn measles epidemic.

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