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Michael Knowles Says Measles Was “Like the Chicken Pox”
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Michael Knowles described measles in passing as a disease "which used to be not that big a deal... It was nothing. It was like the chicken pox." We rate that mostly-false, truth score 0.15, confidence 0.95.
Pre-vaccine, measles and chickenpox each caused about 4 million U.S. cases a year — and measles produced roughly four to five times the hospitalizations and four to five times the deaths.
The claim comes from The Michael Knowles Show, Ep. 2048 ("Trump Ranks the Best American Presidents"), published August 28, 2026, at the 26:12…
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