Whooping cough’s back — and it’s Covid’s fault
Whooping cough’s back — and it’s Covid’s fault
The Dickensian disease is the latest Victorian-era ailment to stage a comeback in the West.
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But to protect newborn babies from the disease, pregnant women can also be offered pertussis vaccines. In England, the BMJ reports, uptake among this group has fallen from over 70 percent in September 2017 to 58 percent in September 2023.
Sounds like 12% of expectant mothers have had their trust in doctors destroyed by the policies enacted during COVID. That's not COVIDs fault. That's our fault for how we reacted.
I mean, if you define “we,” you’re able to start delineating way more info.
We, the human race.
...or at least in this article, we the British, as the stats are for the UK.
Similar stories about whooping cough and measles made the news in the Netherlands as well. Although in addition to blaming Covid here it was also pointed out that some people fail to see the importance of traditional vaccines because they've been so successful, nobody knows anymore how dangerous and debilitating such diseases can be