Vaccine Failure, Part 2: Pertussis Vaccination
By the Children's Health Defense Team
Every year over the past decade, an average of over 25,000 cases of pertussis (the respiratory illness also known as “whooping cough”) have been reported to the CDC. The CDC made no mention of pertussis in its round-up of “nine health threats that made headlines in 2019” (whereas 1,276 non-fatal cases of measles made the list), but, judging from news reports, 2019 was another banner year for pertussis outbreaks—especially in the vaccinated.
Nationally, pertussis-containing vaccine coverage is high—just shy of 95%—yet, by the CDC’s own admission, pertussis outbreaks are increasingly frequent. In addition, many cases of pertussis go undiagnosed and, therefore, unreported.
Given the high vaccination rate and the known fact that vaccinated persons can transmit pertussis asymptomatically, it is important to dissect the spectacular failure of U.S. pertussis vaccination efforts in greater detail.
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