The number of whooping cough cases in Ontario this year has reached a level that hasn’t been seen in 17 years.
An infant receives a routine vaccination at First Georgia Physician Group Pediatrics in Fayetteville, Ga., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
It’s the type of infection that needs to get diagnosed relatively quickly when symptoms start, he added. For Toronto alone, Toronto Public Health confirmed to CTV News Toronto that there has been a “notable” rise in whooping cough cases in the city, with 187 confirmed cases as of Nov. 30. For the same period, TPH noted the pre-pandemic average is 31 cases.
The PHO said 41 of the 58 reported hospitalizations saw children under the age of 18 admitted, with just over 70 per cent, or 29 cases, involving kids between two to 51 weeks old. Four infants were also admitted to the intensive care unit, the report noted. A series of four vaccines are publicly offered to children between two and 18 months old, the PHO said in its report, with booster doses provided to kids again at four, 14 and 24 years of age. Grill also pointed to another immunization program offered to those who are pregnant, when they are about 27 to 32 weeks along in their pregnancy.
“I always say to people, ‘Unimmunized is not good, but under-immunized isn’t great either’ because the whole reason we have a publicly-funded immunization schedule is because it’s based on good scientific evidence,” Grill said.
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