Whooping cough cases in Florida have soared this year, marking an 81% increase from 2024’s number.
As of Sept. 27, 2025, there have been 1,295 cases reported to the Florida Department of Health (DOH), compared to 715 cases for the entirety of 2024, according to the department’s Reportable Diseases Frequency Report.
Really interesting to see the USA become one of the countries on its list of countries that require vaccinations for travel to.
I’m a bit torn on this reporting…
On the one hand I’m totally with them on using this as a cautionary tale about vaccine hesitancy and how the administration policies dangerously exacerbate that phenomenon, and a rough indicator of what the consequences may look like.
On the other hand, the headline makes it sound like the Florida rollback has caused this, but that isn’t strictly true because:
- The Florida rollback hasn’t happened yet
- The rollback doesn’t include whooping cough (pertussis):
All other vaccinations required under Florida law to attend school “remain in place, unless updated through legislation,” including vaccines for measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, mumps and tetanus, the department said.
The headline uses the word “amid,” which is not specifically causative. But announcements have already been made, and the governor has insisted on moving ahead to eliminate vaccination requirements. People don’t need a hard line to follow through on their personal choices to endanger others. They have essentially been given the green light, and they can excuse it in the meantime with “religious beliefs.”
I’m always for the integrity of journalism because the lack thereof is part of the reason we’re where we are today. A more accurate but eaqually as cautionary of a headline would be “Whooping cough cases on the rise in Florida as vaccine skepticism is legally supported by the states lawmakers” or something like that
Republicans: Big whoop!
Ing cough
Rookie numbers, herd immunity at work here.
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I cant wait to gat out of this state
The anitvax aka pro-plauge crowd asked for this.
They still report those numbers? Quick, make them stop so people won’t learn about the consequences of voting GOP!
Burger King is getting in on the action with a promotional offer called Whooper and fries.
Let them die. Let’s put together a fund that helps pro-vaccine people move out of the Florida wasteland.
The problem is that they’re going to take out the immunocompromised who had nothing to do with it. And their mess is going to seep out of the border of their state because it a a vacation hotspot.
??? The people who are going to suffer and die from this are the children who don’t get vaccinated and the immunocompromised who can’t. The dingbats who wanted this will be fine because they themselves were vaccinated as children.
Oh noooo what a shame
But but but my main goal in life is to make floridian lawmakers and lobbyists more powerful than anyone else so who cares about disease and stuff.
Glad to see Darwinian evolution playing out. The children of the stupid are dieing off. Hopefully this means the next generation won’t buy into Brawndo being what plants crave
Good, let them die
The children who are going to suffer and die from this didn’t ask for it, it was their parents who are themselves vaccinated.
Fake news! There have always been whooping cough! My cousin took it! And he is fine! Better than the risk of microchip 5G in the vaccines!
— people that asked for this (likely)
I keep quoting that one famous Iowan: Let them die.
