We have been barking about this ever since Tangerine 2.0 was inaugurated. You know that rings true. Damn.
And perhaps some out there in my audiences might think I should applaud the fact that finally Oz is coming around — to endorse bio-science, here — after over 900 children are infected in the Carolinas with a dread disease for which there is a perfectly serviceable vaccine… a viral vector we had all but eliminated over three decades ago… but I am just too damn angry to do so, tonight. US kids are getting sick — and at least some may die — due to Trumpian lunacy.
Here is the latest:
…Dr. Oz’s statements come as the country struggles to contain the highly contagious virus, which infected thousands of people in 2025 and appears to be following a similar trajectory this year. The United States is now at risk of losing its elimination status, a designation given to countries that have not had continuous spread of measles for more than a year. Measles has been eliminated in the United States since 2000.
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, likened Dr. Oz’s comments to taking a garden hose to a forest fire.
“When you cast those kinds of doubts about vaccine safety and effectiveness, one interview on one news show is not going to move the needle,” he said.
Dr. Osterholm argued that Mr. Kennedy began sowing distrust in the vaccine soon after he was confirmed last February. As measles spread through West Texas, he appeared on national television, encouraging vaccination and then, almost in the same breath, raising questions about its safety….
Quite so. Dammit.
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