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[Music] i remember as a trainee one of the first children i ever admitted to the pediatric icu was a baby with pertussis a five-month-old whose parents had chosen to delay vaccines and i was so struck by how significant the symptoms were it's a frightening disease what happens is children especially young children because their windpipes are narrower get clogged with this thick tenacious mucus so they cough cough cough but they can't really cough up the music mucous because it's so thick and so cough cough cough cough stop breathing and then they breathe in through this narrow windpipe which cause cause causes that hooping sound um but you're worried that they're not going to breathe in because you're watching them sort of cough cough off stop turn blue it's just frightening and i remember just sitting up on call and i would hear it you know doors and doors away and just being so struck by like you say that frightening cough sound and i'm a mom of young kids now and i can't imagine bei