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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.
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The measles vaccine has been applied to hundreds of millions of people already, maybe billions even. It is one of the safest vaccines ever. You have to be a moron to not have it.
You have to be a moron to not have it.
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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.
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 get it.
Guy who advocates against vaccines shocked at disease outbreak
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.
Well hello to you too my fellow triangle resident
A percentage of American have been emboldened with “ain’t my problem”.
It happened when they made COVID-19 political.
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.
“You’re all protected by your precious vaccines, right?”
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.
Nah. Chiropractors and horse paste.
LETS GO DARWIN
Oz was more scientific, he sold herbs and feathers. This would be a two blue, three red feather prescription.
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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.
You can say Fuck.
No SINGLE WOMEN?
No TREE CLIMBING??
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Sounds like a terrible summer camp.
Fuck the cunt.
I first knew about him from Oprah. Unfortunately, Oprah platformed many quacks who are now in positions of power. I can’t believe I used to watch the show, but I was too young to know better before.
In today’s episode of “Thing ‘Conservatives’ warned would happen, happens. Conservatives shocked…”
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.
In all fairness to the administration, if they kill everybody in the country nobody will be around to vote against them.
They’re mostly killing their own dumbfuck voters.
Yeah turns out there’s a reason for that whole MMR thing
Mumps and Rubella are no walk in the park either as I understand it. We are so spoiled we don’t even know how good we have it with these vaccines, because of the vaccines we don’t appreciate vaccines.
because of the vaccines we don’t appreciate vaccines
It’s like all these things - I’ve had people tell me climate change won’t amount to anything because “look at the hole in the ozone layer, it just went away”. It went away because we did something about it! Same with the millennium bug. People worked round the clock fixing it before it was too late.
The ozone hole has not disappeared. It is shrinking, but there is also a new threat to the ozone layer: the large wild fires are a major problem.
It’s not a crisis that features on front pages though, and the main drivers at the time were identified and eliminated (Montreal protocol). I didn’t know wildfires had an effect, that’s interesting, and worrying.
Yeah mumps is real bad, and iirc rubella is generally not too bad after birth, but if a pregnant person gets it it’s known for causing birth defects.
Vaccines are amazing. Like I get that some like covid and smallpox are unpleasant, but even those are better than the disease. And while many people may not like the idea of giving their kid a vaccine for an std, the hpv vaccine prevents cancer.
HPV is everywhere too. Granted the vaccine I believe is only for one or more strains of hpv, while there are a couple of hundred total. But basically anyone that’s had sex with anyone has some type of hpv, most people don’t show any symptoms for it. But yeah the more problematic ones are a big cause of oral cancers, some anal cancers, cervical, etc.
Also in old age it can do other stuff, like eat into your brain, idk how common that is but it has happened.
Girls who were HPV vaccinated now have almost zero cervical cancer 10 years later.
Free cure for cancer… But nah.
I remember being puzzled that my Christian (“pro-life”) parents were so against the HPV vaccine, especially considering that they don’t have any daughters.
Turns out they’d prefer women to die of cervical cancer for having sex than to even suggest to a 15yo girl that sex before marriage isn’t the most evil thing to ever exist.
Shit is just so painfully fucking stupid and hateful
Same thing at my daughter’s school, “the HPV vaccine turns daughters into sluts”.
incredible to see this level of ignorance in the 21 century.
Like you literally don’t even need to tell them it’s for an STD if that’s your prerogative. Just tell them it’s to prevent cancer.
It’s so fucking stupid I hate it so much
I think men and woman can get oral cancers from those same strains, and others, of hpv too. Like throat cancers. But there are like hundreds of strains, near 200 just in people.
Boys should get it as well.
True story - mother in law, Deep South railed against it. She never stood a chance. But we said, effectively “wait, so cancer runs in your family, and this prevents a type of cancer, what kind of monster doesn’t want their grandkids protected from at least some cancer”
Dr. Oz needs to go back to Emerald City and die.
I really wish Canada would use this to close our borders to the U.S.
