“They don’t have time in between those coughs to take a breath,” said Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at University of California, Davis, Children’s Hospital. “Sometimes, if it’s so severe, the kids end up being intubated or on a ventilator so that they can get oxygen.”
Infants are the most vulnerable to whooping cough, with the highest risk of getting infected and of serious complications.
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