Whooping Cough Case Soar as Vaccine Rates Decline

[struggle4progress]

In the past six months, two babies in Louisiana have died of pertussis, the disease commonly known as whooping cough.

Washington state recently announced its first confirmed death from pertussis in more than a decade.

Idaho and South Dakota each reported a death this year, and Oregon last year reported two as well as its highest number of cases since 1950.

While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak concentrated in the small, dusty towns of West Texas, cases of pertussis have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since hitting a recent low in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Deaths tied to the disease are also up, hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years. Cases are on track to exceed that total this year ...

https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump

[Meowmee]

1. We had another outbreak this year here

We both were boosted for it with tdap. I recommend that for all.

[peggysue2]

6. I, too, was boosted.

Wanted to protect my grand daughter at all costs. She's been vaxxed since then but her immune system is still very fragile. I didn't want to take a chance of inadvertently exposing her to pertussis, an infection that would likely kill her. She was a trach-baby up until last fall.

[Meowmee]

7. Good thing you did that 😀

I’m glad she recovered from that. 🤗 You must do everything you can to keep her safe. My brother was a preemie in terms of weight at birth. I don’t remember what they did way back then, but he was in the hospital for a while.

[tanyev]

2. "Modern" GOP: You don't need to vaccinate them if you just keep having more babies!

Horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.

[Meowmee]

8. Yes one of them said grandma's gonna have to die during Covid so the kids can go to school too

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[kentuck]

4. How criminal is that?

Impeachment should never be mentioned as the punishment for such crimes.

[bdamomma]

5. I was just

thinking this morning how this regime will be responsible for many deaths that can/could be avoided. This is a full-on assault on American people and not only us other vulnerable people and children in different countries. We thought Covid was bad just wait, we need to never stop speaking out against this monster regime.

Our lives definitely depend on it.