Veronica McNally from West Bloomfield has made it her life’s work to talk about vaccines and pertussis, also known as whooping cough.
She told 7 News Detroit that she and her husband decided to do so on the car ride to their daughter Francesca Marie’s funeral in 2012. Their 3-month-old died battling whooping cough.
Veronica McNally “This disease hit Francesca like a Mack truck,” McNally said. “There was no medical intervention that was possible. She had the best care available — there was no medical intervention that was possible that was going to save her life.”
McNally bares her soul and shares her heartbreak to advocate for vaccines.
She did so Thursday as the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has seen over 1,500 cases of whooping cough this year. That’s more than 13 times what they saw in 2023, when the state saw 110 cases…