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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[–] 112 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Yeah turns out there's a reason for that whole MMR thing

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Girls who were HPV vaccinated now have almost zero cervical cancer 10 years later.

    Free cure for cancer... But nah.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    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”

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  • [–] 128 points 9 months ago

    Dr. Oz needs to go back to Emerald City and die.

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  • [–] 58 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    Eat shit Mehmet.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago

    Dipshits spend 15 years dismissing and spreading fud about vaccines, only to beg their people to get a vaccine. Too little, too late.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 85 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    "B-but... Vaccines BAD! Vaccines give babby autism!"

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    Don't forget about the 5G tracking microchip you can easily detect if you bring a metallic items near your arm.

    Now that it's been years since anyone brought this up, it sounds completely insane and stupid. I think someone should have documented all of this absolutely hilarious trash that used to float around the internet during the pandemic. Future generations are not going to believe how wild it got.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Let's add wifi and cell towers giving you migraine, cancer and whatnot before everyone got a mobile. Say 1995-2000 was probably the best moment to hear all those morons tell you how dangerous the "radiation" was.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry, most recent science indicates Tylenol and the amount of foreskin.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    A percentage of American have been emboldened with "ain't my problem".

    It happened when they made COVID-19 political.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    I really wish Canada would use this to close our borders to the U.S.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    In today's episode of "Thing 'Conservatives' warned would happen, happens. Conservatives shocked..."

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago*

    Oh no, the gullible people your friends need to get elected are the gullible people that ate up your antivax bullshit. Who would have thought!

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Nah. Chiropractors and horse paste.

    LETS GO DARWIN

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    Now I don’t want to.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    “Take the vaccine, please. We have a solution for our problem,” Oz said

    The political right is making their bed. Let them have fewer voters in a few years.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This is one of the few instances of AI slop that I actually chuckled at

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I didn’t generate it, just saved it from somewhere someone else posted it. Can’t help but agree with you.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago

    So, will RFK get Oz kicked out of the administration, or simply punch him in the face in an adderall-fueled rage? Cold comfort either way.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    Last I checked, he was not a doctor and could only use this title as his tv show persona.

    Anways, not like I would ever cobsider him a fucking doctor lol

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Nah that's Dr. Phil.

    Dr. Oz is a medical doctor and actually has contributed to medical science in a significant way, too. He's done at least one successful heart transplant that I know about and helped make the LVAD.

    Comparing him to Dr. Phil, though, all we really learn is that real and fake doctors can peddle bullshit and misinformation on TV.

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    Nah. Mehmet Oz played a trick of MDs at university centers of getting his name on scientific studies or which he did fuck all. Because of this, journals now require statement of exact contribution because too many papers were published with >50 MDs who all scurry like roaches when the work is found fraudulent.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    You got a source for that, by chance?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    ICMJE | Recommendations | Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors https://share.google/Hsmr4prehPkQPZqfj

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I'm sorry, I more meant anything supporting he did that, specifically.

    I'm finding articles about how X thing he did isn't fully legitimate because it doesn't have the research, he peddled it anyway, or how X thing he claimed was completely baseless, but nothing indicating he ever stole authorship or paid off some group to falsely be listed as an author.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I thought that was Doctor Phil..the psych guy

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Look at that guy. No way I take advice from someone who looks like that demon wearing an ill fitting human skin suit Copeland...

    Copeland Lite, if you will.

    In this case though, yes get vaccinated. Don't be a dumbass.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Travel ban the usians

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