Covering their tracks there.
What my cat does in the litterbox.
Fact is, they’ve known that the current vaccine was losing its effectiveness for nearly 20 years. Even before the acellular one.
Dr. Mooi has had a research grant to study this very thing since the early/mid 90’s. That they act all shocked now belies the fact they’ve been funding studies of this very thing (with pretty strong conclusions to the affirmative) for two decades.
The same sorts of ‘denial and obfuscation’ occurred when it began to be apparent that antibiotics were losing their effectiveness as well.
It’s what monolithic organizations do.
The really cool part of Dr. Mooi’s research is apparently being vaccinated makes you MORE susceptible to the escape mutant with 10X mortality and morbidity.
Here J Mol Med (Berl). 2015 Apr;93(4):395-402.Complement evasion by Bordetella pertussis: implications for improving current vaccines. Dr Mooi et.al
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366546/
proposes the using of complement modulating proteins such as Vag8 ( http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O66044 ) in new vaccines.