The increase represents a return to the typical, pre-pandemic prevalence of whooping cough, which tended to surge in cyclical patterns of over 10,000 cases a year prior to the appearance of COVID-19.
Instead, existing respiratory viruses that can lead to a lingering cough, such as those that cause the common cold, flu, RSV and COVID-19, are likely ... professor of medicine at Hofstra ...
Like many respiratory illnesses, whooping cough cases dropped to low levels during the pandemic as people limited social interactions and took other precautions to defend against Covid-19.