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.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Let them die. Let’s put together a fund that helps pro-vaccine people move out of the Florida wasteland.

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      10 hours ago

      ??? 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.

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      15 hours ago

      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.