In the latest episode of Meidas Health, host Dr. Vin Gupta convenes two of the nation’s top pediatric minds—Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor, and Dr. Sapna Singh, Chief Medical Officer of Texas Children’s Hospital—for a sweeping discussion on one of the most dangerous health crises America is quietly facing: the resurgence of measles.
What unfolds is more than just a public health conversation—it’s a sobering look at how coordinated disinformation campaigns, political opportunism, and wellness industry profiteering are undermining decades of scientific progress. Dr. Hotez warns of a looming collapse in America’s vaccine ecosystem, connecting the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas to a broader unraveling fueled by libertarian ideologies and influencer-driven health myths. Dr. Singh, speaking from the frontlines, details how vaccine hesitancy is now one of the leading causes of burnout among pediatricians—and how misinformation is literally killing children who could have been saved.
Together, the doctors dissect the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda pushed by RFK Jr. as a slick rebrand of anti-science rhetoric, and explore how AI could be both a cure and a curse when it comes to fighting health misinformation. From the emotional toll of pediatric care to the urgent need for systemic reforms in medical education and digital communication, this episode is a must-listen for anyone concerned about the future of public health and the safety of America’s children.
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Dr. Hotez is the science, just like Dr. Fauci. MAHA is a danger to our health. Please remember to get your latest boosters and mask up - COVID is having a resurgence due to anti-vaxxers: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/maga-fascists-gave-me-covid
Just got mine today. I can’t believe how this toxic information is being spread around. Can’t people just do a little research on their own and consider the source. Canada had the highest compliance and the lowest number of deaths. See:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60380317#
Thanks for bringing these great doctors to Meidas!
Robert Kennedy is to measles . As tRUMP is to Covid
Retired Respiratory Therapist here. Excellent discussion. Kennedy is a gormless idiot.
I’m a retired ob/gyn and your podcasts are indispensable. Because of course our families and friends want our opinions and I have no idea what language they are speaking when referring to this maha bullshit. Thankful for all that you do and I wish you the best luck with your patients at this time. You are so appreciated.
And after watching the video of RFK swimming in a sewage river with two of his grandchildren. Where were the idiotic parents?
I would have sued him for child endangerment. Unless the parents are as idiotic and brainwashed as he is, in which case, the state should sue ALL of them for child endangerment!
I agree.
I was thinking the same thing and I would be furious putting young children in danger.
RFK said himself that you should take NO MEDICAL ADVICE from him - people need to realize what RFK says in the medical arena is usually basis nonsense.
I appreciate honest answers and giving us an avenue to help navigate through this regimes attacks on our institutions. As it relates to the VA, this is important as vets that don't look to sources outside the VA are forced to eat a s**t sandwich of disinformation and political goals. The VA has never been perfect, but under Biden it was legitimately improving. Now we have a corrupt liar heading the agency. Every additional barrier to care WILL and DOES cost the lives of vets. The most egregious to me is the attack on mental health services. I have lost soldiers to suicide post-deployement and others prior to that. There should be legal actions taken against those elected officials and civilian agents that have caused and continue to contribute to this treason. THANK YOU for all that you are doing and a HUGE Thank you to the VA health providers that continue to serve with honor and integrity
Thank you for the honest, fact based health related info we so badly need right now. As a patient that has gene mutation based Primary Immune deficiency and on IVIG to survive, I am very concerned that herd immunity will lessen due to anti vaccine ignorance. RFK's policies are setting us back decades and putting our lives in danger. We can not trust any of the info, stats etc coming from RFK's MAHA. Corruption that is a killer!
Really good information as we enter into a low and misinformation time in this country.
My personal belief is that ONLY medical exemptions should be allowed for childhood disease vaccinations. Used to be that those of us who lived through these childhood illnesses, and our parents of course, were exceptionally grateful for the ‘new’ vaccines available - so vaccination rates were extremely high. Now with all this misinformation and its aiding and abetting by ignorant politicians in all states (but mostly in red states), rates are far below what we need for herd immunity. There should be NO religious exemption, and NO personal exemption, ever! These people are playing Russian roulette with their children’s lives!
One of the big obstacles for doctors & nurses being able to educate & support families is the Health Maintenance/Insurance business. Get them out of the middle between patients & medical professionals!
As tragic as childhood death is, if we could enlist those bereaved parents. The population would be more likely to believe and get their own kids vaccinated.
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Thank you for an enlightening and informative hour that I thoroughly enjoyed with these fantastic doctors. When I discovered that all of you were going to be on here I was thrilled. I have known of your expertise and your excellence in the medical field and how lucky are we to have the three of you. I thoroughly enjoyed your information and I get my COVID shot every year. When they indicated 65 or older should get MMR, I did that too. I am a firm believer in listening to sound medical advice and following it. I believe vaccines are exceptionally helpful. Thank you for being out in the field taking care of so many people who are suffering with measles and I hear eboli is kicking in as well. Thank you for your service to all of our children and adults alike. I look forward to the next podcast!! Thank you for your time. 👏🏼👏🏼
That clown RFK Jr is going to kill people and make us all sick.
The CDC lost access to their own facebook page, and posts stopped at the end of March, with a self-promotion propaganda post featuring RFK Jr. Their newsletters have stopped, and health advisories. HHS, aka RFK aka Trump, control all that now.
Terrible
Thank you all. I taught research while Biden was in office. As an epigeneticist my boss was into rfk and trump. He knows nothing about peer reviewed research. His denier marches totally ruined our little New Mexico town. I quit my job. Several copies of the original NIH and CDC are stored on Blue Sky.
Dr. Hotez is who I went to during the COVID pandemic. He had videos out regarding the pandemic which were quite helpful. The CDC is another place where I went for information regarding covid and the many other illnesses as well. I don't understand why people no longer believe in medical science.
Is the CDC website being fully updated? If not is there another website the public can turn to for information?
Fantastic discussion. Thanks to all three for the terrific insight into the “doc side” of whats going on. This (#7) is the first ive listened to, looking forward now to catching up with the others and to what is to come.
Thank you for this program. It's reassuring to have accurate concise information available. I recently saw on social media a young parent complaining about two physicians that refused to treat their child due to the parents refusing to have their child vaccinated. Perhaps you could address this subject on a future program.
Thank you, doctors! Your truth is valued. Our leaders in Hhs will destroy trust, spew lies, and kill people, especially children, before they see the truth. I miss the guard rails media used to have to follow. They were required to only share facts. Then Reagan and fox...
Excellent discussion! Thank you.
I am so relieved to find you all here!
Thank you all for doing this and everything you do.
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Thank you for bringing us the latest information, that we are no longer receiving due to foolish cuts and advise from MAHA. As a nurse it is so important to continue to keep informed.
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Thank you for keeping us informed!
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Thank you for this great interview!!!
Thank you Doctors !
I love and respect Peter Hotez!
Excellent presentation, thank you so much for adding a medical podcast to your network.
Ok please take the reins and create that website for all doctors and one for the population that believes in science and is lost in this JFK game of thrones
This is such an insane and unchristian attitude it makes me want to run to TX and talk to these people.
Thank you very much for this. With bone marrow cancer, I don't benefit fully from vaccines--and really need that herd immunity that isn't happening, along with continued access to effective medications. Also, immunocompromised people like myself will especially need current info on surges in particular communicable diseases (and foodborne) that is not coming from the CDC, for knowing when to hide. I'm volunteering with the local public health on their measles campaign. I can't help feeling that RFK Jr and the administration are putting a target on my back.
ALOHA...!!!
It’s really sad to have a man who is Not from the Medical field have reigns over our health system and endangers us and our children…Protests speak loudly and tells this false Regime we won’t accept it…Trump doesn’t like being stood up to but just maybe he’ll see we mean business because we still have the Constitution…
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Super thanks to Dr Gupta and the incredible medical experts he brings on Meidas Health. In a time when HHS is spreading misinformation, we need to hear real, fact-based guidance from people who actually know what they're talking about.
Appreciation from many of us in Seattle - please keep it coming!
AMA coughing up some money - and creating an creating an informational website - so all healthcare docs can have access to post to (once cleared for NOT posting disinformation) so that scientists, labs, docs, etc. can collect & post data on the truth on vaccines and healthcare, pediatrics, covid, etc..
Question - What will happen (to any of you amazing doctors) if during this period we get another round of Ebola??
There is an "uber website", while maybe not as steeped in explanation as a doctor would understand, it brings the concepts home for most patients: https://www.factcheck.org/scicheck/
Such a great conversation! Ty all 💙
Dr. Hotez…Snopes for Health/Science. Thank you all so much for all you do 💙
Thank you for bringing this content.
There are multiple children's books on immunizations and health- add these simple books to your offices- have the TV on in the waiting room with info -simple and concise- on health and vaccines. Hand out DVD movies or put a movie on in the waiting rooms - examole -one on the famous diptheria run in alaska to save the children in the villages is so engaging. Just some things under the radar- so when patients visit they get an opportunity to become exposed to other information.
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The talks are much appreciated, but I would rather read the talks than take the time to listen. If you have transcripts, please post them. Thanks for your efforts!
How delightfully disconnected this discussion is from medical gaslighting many women experience.
The issue is trust.
The medical industry lost the trust of women. I was told in Health class that menstral cramps didn't exist. When it was doctors who led people into addiction, the health industry that only supports surgery and pills, when medical treatment leads women to swearing never to give birth again, it was your professional field that opened the door to these wellness nuts.
You are acting like the Democratic Party, which thinks the problem is not having a centrist Joe Rogan. The problem isn't snappy messaging. It is you.
Thank you for doing this and thank MTN as well. One of the issues many of us have been concerned about during this time is how we are going to get our medical and scientific information and developments. Please continue what you are doing and again thank you.
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Thank you Meidas Health for bringing this critical information to your audiences.
I followed Dr. Vin Gupta, MD & Dr. Peter Hotez, MD for years on the other site.
I’m grateful for the MeidasTouch Network… because the truth is golden. Thank you.
I loved it!
As a Son of a Nurse MAGA is very dangerous to our health literally most of these MAHA's are just idiots who are parasites to society but to add salt to the wound Ignorance is considered a Parasite to society
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Dr. Hotez is one of the experts I most trust, but since I left twitter (before they changed it to Musk weird landscape) I've missed reading/hearing from him. IS he on a social media platform, as I think he mentioned here, and what IS it? PS, my daughter's a public health professional at the county level, in her second pregnancy now, and she and I RANT a lot together. As with her first child, she EXPECTED to be able to get her vaxxes this fall to pass on some "passive immunity to the infant.
"Dr. Singh, speaking from the frontlines, details how vaccine hesitancy is now one of the leading causes of burnout among pediatricians—and how misinformation is literally killing children who could have been saved." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
I wish the "vaccine debate" was not framed as such. Each vaccine has its own risk/benefit profile, as does each disease. If I catch the common cold, I'll probably be fine in a few days or a couple of weeks, and since I work at home rather than in a school, I don't get colds very often, so there's a good chance I'll forego the vaccine. I don't believe most people in the US get vaccinated for typhoid, but if you handle raw sewage or travel to a country with poor sanitation and lots of carriers, getting that vaccine makes good sense. Whether I choose to take a vaccine or not and when depends upon a number of factors, including how likely I am to be exposed to the disease, data on vaccine reactions, the safety record, the transparency of data from the vaccine manufacturer, whether I am currently battling another infection or a nasty allregy, etc.
When COVID-19 came along, we were faced with the choice of taking a new type of vaccine for a new type of disease, where there were so many unknowns. We had to make educated guesses about whether the risks of the disease warranted taking on possible risks of the vaccine.
I chose the Moderna vaccine and had a sore arm where I had had the shot for a day after each of the two doses. I knew a sore arm was common and temporary. I think it was worth it. I know people who seemed to have had far worse reactions to their vaccines ranging from fainting from low blood pressure to the death of two married, elderly people within a week of both of them taking the vaccine. (I'm not sure which COVID vaccine.) Perhaps they actually died of the disease itself, a contaminated vaccine lot - or something else entirely, like carbon monoxide poisoning.
Skeptics would do well to be as skeptical of vaccine reactions as they are of the vaccine itself. Correlation does not prove causation.
The biggest problems, however, are lack of understanding of basic scientific principles by the general public, the news media, and politicians; and lack of discussion about the limits of understanding by the (often nameless) "experts." Doctors are trained in diagnosis, prevention and treatment, but their prevention and treatment training is largely limited to vaccines, drugs and surgery. There are other strategies for prevention and treatment like diet, exercise, body work (chiropractic, massage therapy, etc.), and herbology, for which different types of experts are more suitable. All of these have value and should not be seen as mutually exclusive.
When the AMA tried to discredit the chiropractic profession in the 1960's, they discredited mainstream medicine, because many people had experienced personal benefit from chiropractic treatments and therefore stopped trusting mainstream medicine. There may be good reasons why people distrust vaccines even if there are good reasons to take the vaccines. Address the reasons for the distrust and we may end up with not only more people willing to take vaccines, but also better vaccines and better medicine in general.
Hello Thank you. Is there any change for a written transcript with a report like this?
Thank you so much for the sound-minded information that we so sorely need!
Doctors, and all others, must articulate clearly the personal values that direct their behavior. Trust will not develop without transparency on the doctor's part. You can teach your patients the 'why' about your beliefs, and the principals of science that guide you to your conclusions. Barbara Epperson, PhD
Misinformation? The "misinformation" claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines were "safe and effective," and mandated their use. Additionally, the "misinformation" claimed that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were not "safe and effective." Read the books:
War Room / DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Volunteers’ Reports eBook: Find Out What Pfizer, FDA Tried to Conceal by Pfizer Documents Investigation Team (Author), Amy Kelly (Author), DailyClout LLC (Editor)
The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic by Dr. Pierre Kory.
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal by Dr. Joseph Mercola
I said it before, RFK Jr. is Trump's only legitimate pick. If he is serious about “Making America Healthy,” he needs to change the food pyramid to one not influenced by food lobbyists. If RFK Jr. is allowed to call the shots at the HHS, then he should also initiate the end of the law that Reagan signed in 1986, which granted pharmaceutical companies immunity from lawsuits related to vaccine injuries. Pharmaceutical companies must be held accountable for any injuries caused by their products. This accountability will ensure that safety testing is more thorough and that products are not rushed to market. Finally, he needs to establish a universal single-payer national health insurance system (Medicare for All) in the United States.
I get my vacinnes according to schedule and avail myself of all the wonders allopathic medicine provides. However, I think Dr. Hotez was a bit too blaze about the "all in the pocket of big pharma" plank of health and wellness promoters. The Oxy epidemic sprung from Purdue Pharma's hyper marketing to and incenting of MDs. Add to that the growing number of "board certified" whoevers pushing "all natural" alternatives to the allopathic route. Top it all off with the "science is the answer I want" federal health agencies. This toxic brew should have traditional medicine at DEFCON 1.
Americans obviously have short memories. Trump's murderous policies during Covid were given a pass and he was re-elected. I am not at all hopeful RFK's disastrous public decisions regarding vaccines in health care will follow the same path. Thank for being truth tellers.
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The Need for a Major Economic/Monetary Overhaul to Ensure Liberty
A gold standard is a safeguard against political mismanagement enshrined in the monetary powers and disabilities of Article 1 Sections 8 and 10 of the Constitution and the Mint Act of 1792 The current fiat monetary system is unconstitutional and denies the citizens the right to liberty and supports government hegemony
The history of dictators from Hitler to Mussolini to Lenin to Stalin to FDR shows that one of the first steps to gaining control of the government is to control the currency by keeping the monetary system off a gold standard, that is, when paper currency is redeemable in gold at request Otherwise the middle class taxpayer is presently disconnected from what happens in Washington DC and angry that they have no control over the possibility of impending hyperinflation
A gold standard is a safeguard against political mismanagement But currently we are so removed monetarily from what the framers of the Constitution knew would happen if the currency was not standardized to a precious metal that it will require from Money and Liberty, James Turk, 2021
I like The Scholarly Kitchen blog. They've been around a long time and review changes in publishing.
Can someone explain why so many of us (and kids) have chronic illnesses? If all vaccines are safe, why are we concerned about the unvaccinated? Why do vaccinated kids get measles? We need a truly safe and effective measles vaccine that has been properly tested with legitimate controls
We’ve seen this work well for 50 - 60 years. We have so much in our earth and water that we have in our bodies that is poisonous to us. It’s no wonder why we have more chronic and inflammation now. That doesn’t include how much more we know now.