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Dr Oz downplays measles deaths in Pennsylvania

Dr Mehmet Oz, Trump's pick to run the FDA, is doing the thing where he sows doubt about whether dead children actually died from what killed them. "We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time." Then he rehashes the Covid talking point: maybe those kids weren't dying of measles, they just happened to have measles. This is how you discredit public health in real time. You don't say vaccines don't work. You say "we don't know" and "we need more data" while a preventable disease spreads. Oz knows what he's doing. He's preparing the rhetorical ground to dismiss disease clusters and deaths as coincidence. The Pennsylvania outbreak he's referring to involves unvaccinated children. Measles kills. Full stop. But Oz gets to go on X and whisper doubt to millions before the FDA even confirms his appointment.
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