Doctors Sound The Alarm As The Numbers For This Worrying Disease Are ‘Higher Than They Were Pre-Pandemic’
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It's caused infant deaths and high illness rates throughout the country.
As children’s vaccination rates drop across the United States, rarely discussed diseases are becoming more common. This includes whooping cough, a highly-contagious illness that is largely preventable through vaccination.
“We’re now seeing tens of thousands of cases in the U.S. each year, including multiple deaths this year,” said Dr. Caitlin Li, an infectious diseases specialist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Three unvaccinated infants in Kentucky have died of whooping cough this year, with many more children and adults infected throughout the country. The U.S., as a whole, is on a bad trajectory. There were 6,600 cases of whooping cough in January through March of this year. This is four times more than the same time period last year.
“These numbers are higher than what we were seeing before the COVID-19 pandemic — we saw a dip during the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was so much rigorous masking happening, but those numbers have now come back up and are even higher than they were pre-pandemic,” said Li.
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