Happy World Pneumonia Day: It’s Preventable, Solvable but Still Kills More Kids than Anything Else

A few years ago my then 3-year old started having trouble breathing during the night.  Not just uncomfortable can’t breath-through-stuffy-nose stuff.  The real thing.  What had been a simple cold just hours earlier turned into belabored, chest-heaving breaths that still haunt me.  Ugh, those sucking, watery sounds.  The diagnosis: Pneumonia.   I’m still amazed at how rapidly he …