""Take the vaccine, please," said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator whose boss has raised suspicion about the safety and importance of vaccines. "We have a solution for our problem." Oz, a heart surgeon, defended some recently revised federal vaccine recommendations as well as past comments from President Donald Trump and the nation's health chief, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., about the efficacy of vaccines. From Oz, there was a clear message on the measles."
"An outbreak in South Carolina in the hundreds has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas' 2025 outbreak, and there is also one on the Utah-Arizona border. Multiple other states have had confirmed cases this year. The outbreaks have mostly impacted children and have come as infectious disease experts warn that rising public distrust of vaccines generally may be contributing to the spread of a disease once declared eradicated by public health officials."
"Asked in the television interview whether people should fear the measles, Oz replied, "Oh, for sure." He said Medicare and Medicaid will continue to cover the measles vaccine as part of the insurance programs. "There will never be a barrier to Americans get access to the measles vaccine. And it is part of the core schedule," Oz said. But Oz also said "we have advocated for measles vaccines all along" and that Kennedy "has been on the very front of this.""
Dr. Mehmet Oz urged people to take the measles vaccine and defended revised federal vaccine recommendations and past comments by prominent figures about vaccine efficacy. He emphasized that measles is a disease for which vaccination is important and said there should be no barrier to access through Medicare and Medicaid, calling the vaccine part of the core schedule. Large outbreaks, including hundreds of cases in South Carolina and clusters on the Utah-Arizona border, have mostly affected children. Infectious disease experts warn that growing public distrust of vaccines may be contributing to the disease's spread.
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