Just as cold and flu can spread easily during the Christmas season, so can whooping cough, which has hit six times as many people in 2024 than it did in 2023.
Dr. Jason Newland, chief of infectious diseases at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said there have been 32,000 recorded cases of the disease in the United States this year, The Hill reported. The outlet also cited data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although not an epidemic and more like the rate that was common before the Covid pandemic, the CDC has noted the spike in cases in Pennsylvania and New York, with more than 2,000 infections this year as well as Ohio, Wisconsin, Washington and California, which have all registered more than 1,000 cases in 2024. Newland said it is often difficult to differentiate whooping cough, technically referred to as pertussis, from the common cold because the symptoms are so much alike with fever, runny nose and a cough. But while a cough due to cold can be relatively mild, it is anything but with whooping cough.
“The difference is the cough can come in paroxysms, but the better word for it is just a lot at one time, to where we hear that we say ‘whoop’ because you cough, cough, cough, cough, cough and then you go whoop because you’ve got to breathe,” Newland said, who recommends that children as young as two months be vaccinated against the disease.
“And then because the vaccine is not perfect, meaning it doesn’t provide me protection the rest of my life, you really need to get it every ten years,” Newland insisted, while noting that more people are opting not to get the vaccine, as per The Hill. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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