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.
Not surprising to see Oz and RFK jr do a 180 on vaccines now that there’s a blossoming pandemic. The anti-vax movement was never really about the vaccines, it’s just another distract and divide tactic.
The 20th century antivax movement started, as all things do, as a grift.
not-a-doctor Andrew Wakefield falsified evidence and commited fraud to make people believe the MMR vaccine was dangerous. Not because he was against vaccines in general, but because he got a fuckload of money from a company that sold seperate vaccines who didn’t like the fact that a combination vaccine was costing them a lot of money.
He actually made his money from a NY law firm who wanted to sue vaccine makers but couldn’t find any evidence against them in the US, so they paid Wakefield to fake data.
This is why scientific fraud is illegal in many countries and could land jail time. Not the US or UK.