Sharing yesterday’s Canadian Press wire story (that’s running on multiple media in Canada) on why Whooping Cough aka Pertussis peaks are more difficult to predict, including the impact of lowered vaccination rates.

“Provincial counts show the vaccine-preventable disease — also known as pertussis or the "100-day cough" — has exceeded peak pre-pandemic numbers in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. “

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Whooping cough outbreaks see cases rise in Ontario

Whooping cough is on track to reach a record number of cases in Ontario while infections climb in eastern provinces and decline in Quebec, but experts say trying to predict the course of the highly contagious disease has been especially difficult thi…

^{Hannah Alberga (CP24)}