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

[erronis]

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

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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'.

[Norrrm]

1. Is RFK Jr going to accuse Oz of promoting autism?

[paleotn]

2. Fuck off, you quack.

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.

[louis-t]

3. S'matter, Ozzie? Does this make you look bad?

It's the only reason he would be desperate to get people to take the vaccine.

[Skittles]

4. with all due respect (NONE), Dr Oz can fuck right off

too little, too late

[FiveFifteen]

5. Dick

Just a medical arsonist realizing that the matches he played with next to the tinderbox of MAHA ignorance may, you know, cause harm. He owns this, every single infection through death.

Loser.

[markodochartaigh]

6. Mark Twain

"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo the work again!”

https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain/it-is-easier-to-con-a-man-than-to-convince-him-he-has-been-conned/

[BigmanPigman]

7. "Doctor" Oz should choke on his own "crudite"

Thanks for giving us Oz and Dr. Phil, Oprah! And some people wanted HER to run for POTUS several years ago. What a laugh!

"In an August 2022 campaign video, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, went viral for using the term "crudite" while highlighting high grocery prices. He displayed broccoli, carrots, asparagus, salsa, and guacamole, claiming the total was $20, which prompted ridicule for being out of touch and for misnaming a local store."

[Blumancru]

8. So the antivaxxer movement has spent decades demonizing vaccines

But apparently someone has now calculated that measles will affect MAGAts more than their opposition.
I don’t think you are gonna stop that train and make it go the other direction very easily, if you can do it at all.
Congratulations, antivaxxers. The United States is on its way to having health outcomes comparable to the poorest third world nations. But you owned the libs and that is what counts.
I am not worried, my entire family is vaccinated against measles.

Womp womp.

[Javaman]

9. nothing like a unified message, right?

[travelingthrulife]

10. GD phony.