""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.""
""Not all illnesses are equally dangerous and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses," he told CNN's "State of the Union. "But measles is one you should get your vaccine." 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." Questions about vaccines did not come up later in a Kennedy interview on Fox News Channel's "The Sunday Briefing," where he was asked about what kind of Super Bowl snack he might have (probably yogurt). He also he eats steak with sauerkraut in the mornings. Critics of Kennedy have argued that"
Dr. Mehmet Oz urged people to take the measles vaccine and said, "We have a solution for our problem." Oz defended revised federal vaccine recommendations and referenced past comments by President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He warned that measles is a disease people should be vaccinated against and said fear of measles is warranted. A large outbreak in South Carolina has surpassed prior counts, with additional clusters on the Utah-Arizona border and cases in multiple states, mostly affecting children. Oz said Medicare and Medicaid will continue to cover the measles vaccine and that access will not be barred. Oz stated that he and others have consistently advocated for measles vaccination, and noted that Kennedy has been prominent on the issue. A separate Kennedy interview on Fox did not address vaccines and focused on personal preferences instead.
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