{"id":17215,"date":"2025-12-31T02:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dr-oz-calls-flu-vaccine-controversial-of-late\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:20:30","slug":"dr-oz-calls-flu-vaccine-controversial-of-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dr-oz-calls-flu-vaccine-controversial-of-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz calls flu vaccine &#8216;controversial of late&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on Tuesday called the seasonal flu vaccine &#8220;controversial of late&#8221; and advised various Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiatives as ways to &#8220;overcome&#8221; the virus. Appearing on Newsmax, Oz spoke on this year&#8217;s flu season&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5667218-flu-shot-effectiveness-debate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on Tuesday called the seasonal flu vaccine &#8220;controversial of late&#8221; and advised various Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiatives as ways to &#8220;overcome&#8221; the virus. Appearing on Newsmax, Oz spoke on this year&#8217;s flu season&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}