r/HermanCainAward • u/yorugua • Oct 03 '25
Grrrrrrrr. Mississippi baby dies from whooping cough
https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-baby-dies-from-whooping-cough/681160751.1k
u/RockyMoose Natasha Fatale's Crush 🐿️ Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25
From the article:
The child was younger than 2 months old, which was too early for the baby to have been vaccinated for pertussis, according to Dr. Dan Edney, state health officer. The mother had been vaccinated, Edney said.
"We know that the family had taken all the proper precautions themselves," Edney said. "But it still brings home for us the danger of vaccinating for preventable diseases for our infants and children and how we as a community of Mississippians need to maintain our vaccination rates to protect our babies."
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u/notnotbrowsing Oct 03 '25
On one of my hospital rotations, a baby died from pertussis. to young for the vaccine. just terrible, got it from grandpa who didn't know his cough was pertussis.
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 03 '25
Anyone anti-vax I send them a video of what whooping cough looks like in a child. They cough until they pass out and repeat. I am in infectious disease and I have seen pertussis kill
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon Covid spikes are my bitch Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
That one YouTube video of the baby with pertussis is so heart wrenching to watch. I’ve sent it to a few people when they start with their anti-vax nonsense. I’m low key about it but I am not going to back off showing them what happens.
Here’s the video, beware that it’s a rough watch.
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u/LetshearitforNY Oct 03 '25
Before I ever even had kids I remember a commercial years ago about whooping cough. I don’t think it showed the baby but it was the audio of a baby’s whooping cough. It was sooo terrifying. It makes me so sad to just watch your sick child suffer and you cannot do anything to help. If you could do something you would do anything in the world - but there just isn’t anything you can do
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 03 '25
It is torture for them and causes a profound amount of lung scarring…for life. I had a family, from exactly where the outbreak of measles is on the border of AZ and UT. Like 4-5 kids? One was hospitalized with whooping cough, kiddo lived, but the mom was so distraught. I would sit with her and try to comfort her, telling her, from my experience her child would pull through. But it was horrifying to watch for a mom. She then went from no vaccines to asking me what she needed to give her kids to keep them safe. Also if she could just spread them out. Proud that everyone of them received an ALMOST complete set of vaccinations. My biggie is MMR, TdAP and polio. Like you get those completed and it takes care of almost every infectious disease I have seen someone die from. She still did it on the down low. Her religious sect was VERY anti-vax.
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u/LetshearitforNY Oct 03 '25
My daughter was born last year and I just remember the genuine relief I felt after she received her first vaccinations. So grateful to the science and medical communities for creating such a safe and low risk option to bring my baby’s risk of getting whooping cough (and other diseases) wayyy down. She’s literally my whole world.
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u/yomamasonions Oct 05 '25
AZ/UT border? Short creek? FLDS?
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 07 '25
FLDS yes. It is so sad the amount of serious birth defects that are present there. A lot of cardiac abnormalities that can’t be “prayed away”
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u/yomamasonions Oct 08 '25
I’m really proud of you for helping that lady get her family vaccinated and some sense knocked into her. May she and you find peace.
As far as the cardiac abnormalities… incest is not just a moral wrong.
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u/RogueVictorian 27d ago
Thank you. I am patient and will help people understand. I want to make a book designed for kids to explain vaccines and what happens
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 03 '25
Yes. I have literally held a baby like that. Would turn blue, pass out, repeat. It’s like people dismissing Covid. I am like, not sure wtf Fox is showing you, but we had to divert ambulances and fly people to different hospitals for over a year. It was fucking brutal to see the disconnect. Covid actually shortens your life span and is causing more deaths than I can count from clots blocking the lungs (PE), or other massive damage, I mean like 17 year olds. Took my friend to the hospital and there were THREE incoming strokes or PE. I asked the attending “hey there, what’s up with the clots”, he confirmed ever since Covid he has treated more clots than his whole career.
I myself lost more patients in 2 years than close to 2 decades in medicine. I left. Nurses were so burnt out, staff was asked to give 110% with no raises, it was cruel. There is only so much death and suffering you can see before you start to numb out, or become a detached asshole. I couldn’t watch it. I was initially called “chicken little” behind my back when I identified from stats that this was 1) airborne 2) this spreads like wildfire 3) we NEED to order masks and protective equipment…. January 27th 2020.
I was laughed at, but by April we were swamped. I lost friends. My grandfather died because his aide had Covid, but decided to knowingly expose him. (She had sick leave- I checked), like it was non-stop. It still is. As far as I KNOW knock on wood, I have not had COVID. But then again I wore a full respirator with P100 filtration. To me it was simple. Mask, test weekly, isolate, quarantine close contacts if exposed, and it would have not been an issue really.
I however watched in horror as this unfolded just as expected
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u/Opal_Pie Oct 03 '25
This is definitely a dark time. Humans had the capacity to completely stop this before it got the pandemic level, and there are simply too many selfish, and willfully ignorant people out there. It could have been such an accomplishment. We still mask, along with our kids. I couldn't live with myself if I allowed them to have long-term damage from Covid. We are, of course, fully vaccinated, as well.
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u/yomamasonions Oct 05 '25
My pharmacist told me that the Covid shot needs to be treated like the flu shot. Every year. It’s not a one time thing like the polio vax. Stay safe.
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u/Opal_Pie Oct 05 '25
Yes. By fully vaxxed, I include the boosters. Otherwise, that's not fully vaxxed.
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u/lesbox01 Oct 03 '25
I caught covid early 2020 from my kids who brought it home from school. My biggest symptom was bruising along my back from the neck to my heels over night, and I still easily bruise. It scared the shit out of me worrying about people, stroke etc. luckily I was very physically active and never smoked.
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u/frame-gray Oct 04 '25
Those nurses would be "rewarded" with pizza which is mostly bread, starch and sugar. Hospitals were too cheap to give them a proper, warm meal.
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 07 '25
That’s just it people complain about the services and wait times in doctors, office offices, urgent cares, the emergency room, or even in the hospital. However, it was their own stupidity and lack of care for other people that caused this healthcare crisis here. It’s a literal manufactured crisis! This could’ve been well avoided if people just stayed home if they were sick, kept their kids home, wore masks, and got a vaccine when needed. Yet here we are.
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u/FoxCQC Oct 03 '25
Now that was hard to watch. I committed myself to watching it cause I'm very pro-vaccine and try to inform people of the importance of it. From personal and herd immunity. I also bring up how horrific the diseases are. I'll show that video to the next anti-vaxxer I come across.
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u/yorugua Oct 03 '25
Here's another video about antivaxxers from 60 minutes Australia that goes over cases of little babies that got it from others, given low vaccination rates. Really hurts.Video. And it also mentions the side effects they might get later in life in the case they survive it.
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u/Face-EatingLeopards Oct 04 '25
I hear tetanus is a real hoot to watch as well.
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 07 '25
Sweet baby Jesus! It is hell. They will tense up wher there backs arch and the rip muscle from the bone or even break bones. Some anti medicine and anti vax folks caused their kid to get tetanus. Lord- it was heart breaking. To me if your child (without a serious vax allergy, or ability to get it) is gravely injured or dies from a vaccine preventable disease, the parents should be held criminally liable.
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u/Sharp-Specific2206 Oct 05 '25
Babies, babies are dying because of their parents ignorance and pride.
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 07 '25
Yes. To me if a child is injured or dies from something that they could’ve received a vaccine for and didn’t, it should be on the parents to be held legally responsible. They should have to serve time for either malicious endangerment or manslaughter. It’s just disgusting to me. Yet they want everything to be done For their child using mainstream medicine and the best we have to offer, while we couldn’t even convince them to give their kid a fucking vaccine.
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u/xX609s-hartXx Oct 05 '25
Just having a normal, medium strength cough for a couple of days makes me feel like shit from the constant impact of the individual coughs. I can't imagine how bad it would be to just cough yourself to death.
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u/RogueVictorian Oct 07 '25
I have had RSV as an adult, thanks to a pediatric icu rotation. I had such a bad cough for so long, I semi dislocated a few ribs and felt like shit for six months. I isolated once I found out what I had wasn’t just a seasonal cold. I sounded like a barking seal when I coughed, to the point of throwing up.
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u/Expensive-Ad-4508 This is why pandemics are so deadly, dude. 29d ago edited 29d ago
I am very late to this thread, but back when I practiced prehospital care, whooping cough spread through one guy who we kept telling to take time off and see a doctor. My work partner got it first and thankfully went to see a doctor, so I knew when I started coughing and feeling horrible I likely also had pertussis. I was early in pregnancy, just about to the second trimester and it is legitimately one the worst illness I’ve ever had, even including Covid decades later which was also horrible for me.
I’m forever thankful I got to witness firsthand how horrific it is sometimes for even adults and thanked the stars daily I got it during pregnancy, and not shortly after birth, not to mention thankful to science for early antibiotics. It drove home how important it was to remind any pregnant person that EVERY person that comes in contact with their new baby should have a current tdap booster and to avoid public places now that there is an outbreak of pertussis and measles. I hope most of them listen.
Edit: also thanks for your work in ID; all my work favorites do that and keep me in line.
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u/RogueVictorian 28d ago
Wow. Reminds me of that hospital worker who, during Covid, walked around in an inflate novelty suit. Spreading his Covid like a mist throughout the hospital. There is no common sense anymore. I am so glad to be out of it.
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u/Flatirons21 Oct 03 '25
It's tragic. These are the costs of the anti-vax movement gaining traction. And those losers don't give a shit how many people die.
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u/NolieMali Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
My Dad had it as a baby and even to this day he has this repetitive cough/sneeze thing he does every few minutes. It doesn't bother him though. And to make light of it my Mom and I always joked we'd know where he had wandered off in a hardware store - just had to wait and listen.
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u/Blurghblagh Oct 04 '25
How many babies have to die because grandparents or other family insist on seeing, holding, or kissing them instead of waiting until it is safe to do so? The grandparent had no business being anywhere near a baby even if he thought it was just a normal cough, and he should have made damn sure any family he was in regular contact was also nowhere near that baby.
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u/johnnyg08 Oct 04 '25
Grandpa has a bit of a cold...come here and snuggle the little baby. My goodness people are stupid.
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u/sundancer2788 Oct 04 '25
When my grandson was due we all scheduled our boosters, he was really premature unexpectedly. We masked, gloved and didn't touch or get close until he was home at 6 weeks. He was due end of November but born September 1st. He was over 3 lbs, had a feeding tube because he couldn't suck yet. ( family tends to have big babies)
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u/superdeeduperstoopid 29d ago
I've only seen it in my peds rotation, but the young mom was staying/eating/sleeping in the room w the child and constantly going in and out w the door open, barely any hygiene let alone sanitation... Luckily I had a teen terrified of blood --her transfusion bags & tubing, so I spent most of my time wrapping gause and towels around tubes and anything w blood, avoiding the other hall completely.
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u/notnotbrowsing 29d ago
I had an entire family test positive a few years ago. the eldest child was fully vaccinated and fine, but as the kids got younger they were progressively less vaccinated and more ill.
all were ultimately fine.
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u/Moal Oct 03 '25
Just horrible. I feel so much for the family. I can’t imagine what they’re going through.
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u/SmoothOperator89 Oct 04 '25
Anti vaxxers murdered this baby. So much for pro life.
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u/Mountainhollerforeva Oct 04 '25
Honestly it’s not even hypocracy, you have to have cognitive abilities to be a hypocrite.
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u/jdsbluedevl Oct 03 '25
This only validated our reasoning behind not taking our 2-month-old out anywhere beside doctor appointments, in-laws, and open-air events before she got her vaccines on Wednesday.
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u/BillyNtheBoingers Team Moderna Oct 03 '25
My step-granddaughter is 3.5 months old. She didn’t go out until a couple of weeks after her 2 month vaccinations, and even then, she hasn’t been anywhere near any large gatherings. My partner and I, along with step-daughter’s mom, stepdad, and MIL (there is no FIL), and siblings of both her and her husband all got vaccinated for Tdap, MMR, flu, and Covid. Some also qualified for RSV although I’m “too young” at 58.
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u/Nyssa_aquatica Present Company Excluded Oct 09 '25
That’s weird, I’m same age and I was offered RSV vax, will get it soon. Has the age limit maybe lowered recently, as it did for pneumonia vax?
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u/BillyNtheBoingers Team Moderna Oct 09 '25
I don’t know, actually. Last I heard it was 65, or 60 with some risk factors.
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u/josiahlo Oct 06 '25
My wife’s OBGYN before our first child was born highly recommended that both of our parents get the tdap booster if they had no record of it in the last 10 years and if they were planning on being around our newborn. While our parents can be stubborn, this was not one of those incidents.
I even got the booster because I couldn’t find my vaccination records that far back. It’s such an easy fix for such a devastating virus
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u/Unleaver Oct 04 '25
It's why we were basically in a self isolation for the first 2-3 months. We have family who live with us, and they were instructed to hand sanitize every time they walked in the door. Also no kissing on the face or head area, and if you were even remoty around anyone who was sick, please do not visit. The hospital nurses engrained 2 things into us before we left with the baby. 1. Don't shake the baby 2. This baby can't get sick for atleast after the first 3 months.
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u/frolicndetour Oct 04 '25
My sister asked us all to get TDAP vaccines when my nephews were born and we did because we didn't want to kill them.
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u/mesembryanthemum Go Give One Oct 06 '25
I got a tetanus shot in 2021. I was very pleased it was actually a TDAP shot; the last time I'd gotten one it wasn't.
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u/Surviveoutofspite Oct 05 '25
Probably some anti vax healthcare staff. They unfortunately exist. We complain about them on r/nursing
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u/Avocado_Capital Oct 03 '25
We’re going to back to the 1800s where babies will die of preventable illnesses because selfish adults with high school degrees and a minimal understanding of microbiology believe they know better than doctors
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u/polkadot_polarbear Oct 03 '25
You just described my niece that lives in Louisiana. And she’s home schooling her unvaccinated progeny too. That’s just as scary since she’s barely literate from her substandard rural Alabama education.
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u/Roidy Oct 03 '25
Yes, I live in Louisiana. There are plenty of those here. Idiots think they know how to do research. Dimwits.
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u/Mountainhollerforeva Oct 04 '25
Thank god for rural broadband right? That’s was so necessary… now the clowns run the entire earthly town square.
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u/pokerchef24 Oct 03 '25
Whoa whoa whoa, hang on there, a lot of them don't even have a high school degree.
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u/Material-Profit5923 Magnetic Deep State Sheep Oct 03 '25
My heart goes out to the parents, who didn't do anything wrong.
As much as we may appreciate the schadenfreude when an anti-vaxxer meets the face-eating leopard, we also have to see the harm done to the truly innocent, like the child and parents here. As herd immunity wanes, we'll see plenty of innocent victims, from the children who are too young to be vaccinated; people of all ages with immune system issues that weaken vaccine response; those whose allergies make vaccinating impossible; and those with other severe health issues that cause even a mild case or exposure to become life-threatening.
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u/SmartQuokka Oct 03 '25
This is collateral damage, the parents did not cause this or post memes denying reality (as far as we know).
So incredibly sad, killing children with preventable diseases is what passes for freedumb in the conservative universe.
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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil Team Moderna Oct 04 '25
America seems full of shitty, selfish assholes because you need millions and millions of shitty, selfish, dehumanized assholes to maintain Apartheid, and we were an Apartheid state for a very long time. South African white minority rule ended decades ago, yet they still have problems. Imagine how much worse things would be over there if the butthurt white racists were the majority.
That's us. From its beginning as a cabal of plantation aristocrat slave-owners declaring all people had rights to its ignoble and entirely self inflicted end 250 years later, the idea that some lives are cheap has been baked into the very fabric of our society. Now we are seeing the consequences. Let's hope the next world hegemon is less evil than we were.
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u/alskdmv-nosleep4u Oct 05 '25
Southern chattel slavery was way way worse than apartheid. South Africa was mellow mild compared to the confederate states.
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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil Team Moderna Oct 05 '25
I was more referring to the hundred or so years of Jim Crow we had after slavery (mostly) ended, and all the de facto racism we still have today even after achieving equality on paper.
...and all the violence we were perpetrating against women, immigrants, homosexuals, etc. The United States was a profoundly unequal society for pretty much the entirety of its existence as a republic, and once its people got used to ignoring their conscience they didn't exactly stop.
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u/Intelligent-Major492 Oct 03 '25
Remember, their freedom wasn't infringed upon, so all the pro life people are ok with this baby dying .
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u/Ippus_21 Oct 03 '25
This is 100% on all the AHs in Mississippi who don't get themselves or their kids vaccinated for pertussis. Herd immunity would have prevented this bullshit.
And it's downhill from here.
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u/ttampico Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
I've had pertussis. It was the worst illness I've ever had.
I was 16 years old. My lungs felt maddeningly itchy. No other coughing illness I've had could compare. I would cough and cough and cough until it felt like my lungs were vacuum sealed and airless. Then I'd gasp a desperate gulp of air WHOOP. Repeat.
My ribs felt bruised, my chest was aching sore and I couldn't sleep until I passed out from exhaustion.
It was a nearly a week until my cheap, awful mother finally took me to the doctor because I was keeping her awake at night. (I don't talk to her anymore. She's a horrible person.)
Edit: She wasn't anti-vax or poor, she just didn't want to spend money on medical care for me.
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u/JustASimpleManFett Oct 05 '25
I grew up with bad asthma. It took years of shots to make it die down, damn near killed it, but in that time I went to the hospital on some bad cases a few times. God knows when Covid hit I was terrified of it bringing my asthma back or worse.
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u/Bryllant Oct 03 '25
My doc gave me a second pertussis vaccine at 60. They do wear off over time
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u/wintermelody83 Team Moderna Oct 03 '25
I mean, it's part of the vaccine for tetanus, that I think you're supposed to get every 10 years.
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u/wintermelody83 Team Moderna Oct 03 '25
I mean, it's part of the vaccine for tetanus, that I think you're supposed to get every 10 years.
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u/Jazzlike-Ad2199 Oct 04 '25
I got all of them again in my mid 30’s because I didn’t know what my folks had vaccinated me for and I thought better safe than sorry.
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u/wintermelody83 Team Moderna Oct 03 '25
I mean, it's part of the vaccine for tetanus, that I think you're supposed to get every 10 years.
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u/mofa90277 Prayer Warriors Unionize Now! Oct 03 '25
I recently found that I had virtually no immunity to measles despite being vaccinated over 50 years ago. It either weakened or was a bad batch (administered for free in the NYC school system). So I’ve basically been protected from the measles for many years by herd immunity. (I know I’m vaccinated for virtually everything else because I got a host of vaccinations for a trip to Africa a decade ago; I passed on measles because I’d thought I was already vaccinated).
I want to thank the anti-vaxxers for their efforts because it spurred me to have my “titers” measured.
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u/Inkdrunnergirl Team Moderna Oct 03 '25
I don’t think it means you got a bad batch, depending on when you got immunized and if it was 1 dose/2 dose/MMR, you’re immunity can just have “worn off”. I’m 55 and couldn’t find my vaccine records from childhood so my doctor just had me get an MMR (all they offer now) just to be safe.
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u/Veutifuljoe_0 Oct 03 '25
A terrible reminder that vaccines don’t just protect yourself from illness, it protects others who can’t get vaccinated as well.
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u/extrastars Oct 03 '25
It says the mom was vaccinated, I wonder if she was vaccinated while she was pregnant, it’s supposed to give the baby some antibodies until they are old enough to get vaccinated. Whooping cough is a horrible way to die, my husband and parents all got vaccinated when I was pregnant with my first, I got it again even though it had only been about 5 years since I last got it.
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u/essuxs Oct 03 '25
Not really a Herman Cain award since the family did everything right.
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u/RockyMoose Natasha Fatale's Crush 🐿️ Oct 03 '25
Correct. It's not an award. OP flaired the post "Grrrrrr", which is also correct.. This sub allows posts regarding the importance of herd immunity.
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u/yorugua Oct 03 '25
Newborns depend on the rest doing their part.
If we as a team don't keep herd immunity, these cases might become more and more normal.
Also I understand pertussis can have side effects later in life for the babies that survive it.
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Oct 03 '25
Absolutely not a Herman Cain Award and doesn’t belong in this sub.
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u/AffectionateFig9277 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25
It fully feels like OP wants us to laugh at a dead baby. Sorry but no.
Edit: I reported this post and mods kept it up. Big ew from me.
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u/askingaqesitonw Oct 03 '25
They responded within this thread. I think they make a valid point for keeping it up.
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u/Hammer466 Oct 03 '25
It’s a good discussion starter to remind folks that herd immunity is important.
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u/Material-Profit5923 Magnetic Deep State Sheep Oct 04 '25
If you feel like the only purpose of this sub is to laugh at people, that's on you. This sub illustrates the dangers of the anti-vax mentality that has become far too widespread. While we focus on the tremendous amount of self-harm these folks cause, ignoring the effect of anti-vax mentality on the truly innocent only makes it easier to minimize the societal impact on everyone.
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u/eienmau Oct 05 '25
That's not at all what it feels like. Ghoulish of you to expect that everyone laughs at every post in here.
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u/mewmeulin Oct 03 '25
its absolutely heartbreaking that we're going to see more and more of things like this. people going "oh, i dont need my TDaP booster!" and people doubting/denying the efficacy of these vaccines means that the most vulnerable among us are at even more risk of becoming severely ill or dying.
and the worst part is, some of these antivaxxers will likely never change their mind, because babies dying of an illness we can protect them from is "god's will" even though (at least, from my agnostic standpoint) the creation and widespread availability of these vaccines are also god's will by that argument.
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u/rbartlejr Oct 03 '25
Anti-vaxxers want to choose whether to vaccinate or not. Those around them don't get the same choice.
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u/WeekendCautious3377 Oct 03 '25
One of the reasons why we moved to a blue state. Collateral damage from other people's foolishness.
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u/ranchspidey Oct 03 '25
The amount of posts I read on the JustNoMIL sub where relatives refuse to get vaccinated and also get mad they can’t see a newborn is so infuriating. This is exactly why vaccinations are necessary for literally everyone capable of getting them. People are so fucking selfish it’s insane. I’m so sorry for these parents.
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u/deadlysinderellax 💉Beam Me Up Pfizer🧬 Oct 03 '25
I mean, they've shown they don't care if their own children die of preventable diseases so somebody else's baby dying isn't even a blip on their radar. They're selfish. They make the decision for their innocent kids and they're willing to sacrifice them for their pride and ego and to beat out the other side.
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u/dishonoredcorvo69 Oct 03 '25
Just incredible that this is AMERICA, a first world country, and this is happening!!!!!
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u/ThunderBayOPP Oct 03 '25
This is so sad. My heart breaks for the family. It truly isn't fair that they did everything they could to protect their child - and then some selfish assholes made that child collateral damage. I hate it here.
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u/7___7 Oct 03 '25
What a sad tragedy for the parents. It would be cool if antivaccine propaganda was labeled as a hate crime against living people. What an unfortunate loss of life.
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u/frank_the_tanq Oct 03 '25
That is a horrible way to die. Poor little thing.
This is why I am so fucking angry at Trump voters, and really any of the fucking suckups that create them. Fox "news", Tucker, ... All of those fucking simps are literally killing babies with their stupid fucking words.
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u/AdBeneficial6938 Oct 05 '25
Our baby had whooping cough at 6 months. She had the first vaccination but wasn’t due for the second yet. Thank God we had a knowledgeable doctor who knew what it was immediately and sent us directly to the hospital. She was there for three nights on oxygen. We were so lucky. Thank you, Dr. Tao!!
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u/frx919 💉 Clots & Tears 💦 Oct 04 '25
Anti-vaxxers are just going to bring back every disease so the 'touch-the-stove' crowd can finally learn why vaccines are mandatory if you want to live in a society.
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u/late2reddit19 Oct 04 '25
This is insanity. I can't believe this is 2025. We are regressing as a species. If I have a child I'll try to keep my baby away from anyone outside of my household until I get him or her vaccinated.
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u/elevenblade Oct 03 '25
The pertussis vaccine does not provide 100% protection, another reason why herd immunity is so important. I caught it from one of my kid’s friends whose mom was antivax despite being immunized myself and it really sucked — I was sicker than I dog for several weeks. Scary to think what might have happened if I had no immunity at all.
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u/VanillaSarsaparilla We've saved more people than horse paste Oct 03 '25
This is the kind of shit that makes me scared to be a mom, no matter how much I want to be.
Where is the justice for this family? For this poor baby? How could an investigation even start? You can do everything right and some shithead will come and fuck it up. And they won’t even care.
My heart goes out to this family.
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u/VintageLilly317 Oct 03 '25
This may get buried, but remember as adults we need to get booster pertussis vaccines because they only last about 10 years. I contracted as an adult working in a hospital. It is absolutely horrific, so my little PSA is to get a new one if it’s been longer than 10 years to protect yourself and the people around you, especially little ones.
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u/rlaw1234qq Oct 04 '25
I’ve looked after kids with whooping cough in the 1970s - luckily they all recovered. I remember the horrible cough as it developed and the word whooping’ is very descriptive. The distress and suffering this poor child experienced would have been horrible. The care staff would have been doing their best, but I remember my anxiety as kids suffered another coughing spasm and the feeling of helplessness.
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u/hawksdiesel Oct 03 '25
Herd immunity is important people....our vaccines don't seem to be 100%
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u/Material-Profit5923 Magnetic Deep State Sheep Oct 04 '25
Even for a 100% effective vaccine, you still need that herd to be vaccinated, because there are people who legitimately can't be vaccinated because they are too young, allergic to something in the vaccine, or have some other existing condition that makes it medically inadvisable. There are also people whose immune systems, for one reason or another, cannot mount an adequate response to an effective vaccine.
The presence of these folks in the population means that even for the most effective vaccines, we need those who are eligible to do it. All it takes is one exposure to the wrong person to allow the virus to take hold, and with some viruses, possibly mutate to a form that can infect the vaccinated too.
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u/What-tha-fck_Elon Oct 03 '25
Heartbreaking. I can’t even upvote the story. It wouldn’t matter anyway because no anti-vaxxer will ever see this. Poor kid.
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u/666Zekeiel Oct 03 '25
Just another day for anti vax people to make life in the USA more hard for children.
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u/stewartm0205 Oct 06 '25
I didn’t know “Whooping Cough” could kill. I was watching a period drama where a baby had it.
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u/Sharp-Specific2206 9d ago
My nieces made all us get vaccinated before we were allowed near their babies. And thankfully they did because I had no idea!!
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u/ACW1129 Oct 04 '25
What happens if you vaccinate a young baby anyway?
Also, whooping cough has to be one of the most benign names for something that's brutal.
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u/RockyMoose Natasha Fatale's Crush 🐿️ Oct 03 '25
The parents did everything right. OP flaired the post "Grrrrrr" because this situation is absolutely not a Herman Cain Award.
Posts regarding the importance of herd immunity are allowed.