"Why, sometimes I believe six impossible things before breakfast"

"It is also possible that young people who spent their teenage years during Covid lockdowns may not have built up the usual amount of immunity to protect them against it."
#ImmunityDebt
#TommyRot

Oh… I forgot.

Public health bodies around the world spruiking a lack of infections as a problem, and some even advocating against vaccines.

#ImmunityDebt is a killer theory.

a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background Alt: a woman in a floral shirt is laughing

#ImmunityDebt
#AMR

You don’t owe the pathological bacteria anything.

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Ah. But first, you'd have to #DropDropletDogma.

And hero-worship of Dr. John-masks-cause-acne-Conly.

And belief in #ImmunityDebt.

And that's an awful lot to walk back, eh?

Imagine being a pediatrician big on #ImmunityDebt, while denying "evidence of Covid-19 causing any clinically relevant changes to the immune system" -

@apsmunro.bsky.social

#Medsky🧪 #publichealth Why the media talks about “ #immunitydebt” and why it's controversial ?
The term accurately describes a population-level epidemiological phenomenon but has been widely misunderstood, misused, and exploited for political purposes.

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 “Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

Nein! Doch! Ooooh! (das Vorschaubild hat nix mit dem Text zu tun, kP warum die das mitverlinken) www.bmj.com/content/390/...
#LongCovid #ImmunityDebt #TeamVorsicht #Covid19

So no #immunitydebt after all? How surprising!

Also doch keine #Immunschuld? Wie überraschend!

#Texas #measlesoutbreak #publichealth #immunitydebt

Bar chart for 2023 and 2024 to date showing pediatric cases for all 'respiratory' viruses. Pulled from https://bccdc.shinyapps.io/respiratory_pathogen_characterization/

Pediatric 'respiratory' illness in #Vancouver area has already greatly surpassed last year's peak.

Still paying #RSV #immunitydebt, I guess?

#bced #bcpoli @ubcmedicine.bsky.social

Move aside #ImmunityDebt
Make way for #DaycareImmunityParties
Repeat infections will decimate the immune system.
Everyone is vulnerable.
Everyone includes kids.
#LongCOVID is #AirborneAIDS so #WearN95

Thread by @martinangler on Thread Reader App @martinangler: "Immune Debt Isn't a Thing." A #myth is circulating re: "immune debt" and that repeat viral infections benefit our #immune system. I asked #immunology prof Danny Altmann @Daltmann10 abo...

Martin Angler (@martinangler.com) asked #immunology prof Danny Altmann about #ImmunityDebt and the myth that repeat viral infections benefit our #immune system.

Here's a 1-min sound clip of the reply:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18374...

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙈𝙈𝙐𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝘿𝙀𝘽𝙏?
Two 🧵 by @ejustin46.bsky.social
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18047...
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#Covid #LongCovid #ImmunityDebt #ImmunityTheft

#ImmunityDebt

‘Immunity debt’ is a misguided and dangerous concept There is no evidence that an individual is worse off for having avoided earlier infection

Der Link zum Artikel:

www.ft.com/content/0640...

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #MaskUp #ImpfenSchuetzt #Coronavirus #LongCovid #CleanAir #RSV #Influenza #ImmunityDebt

Most #germs won't harm you. Your #immunesystem protects against infectious agents. However, some germs are different, constantly mutating to breach your defenses. Knowing how germs work can help avoid #infection.✅

#antivaxxers #immunitydebt...

Is this bad RSV and flu season due to an “immunity debt?” A: Yes and No. But the term itself is proving confusing a...

dirt).

https://dearpandemic.org/immunity-debt/

#immunitydebt

Immunity debt: Creating and contesting metaphors - Making Science Public This week I am writing a post about my probably last Covid metaphor: immunity debt. What do people mean by that, I wondered? While trying to find out, I became aware of how slippery a concept this is; so I apologise in advance for misunderstandings. In 2021 a French group of researchers published a paper ...

Today's post is about the 'immunity debt' metaphor and metaphors used to contest that metaphor
#Metaphor #ImmunityDebt #Covid
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2022...

Immunity debt: Creating and contesting metaphors - Making Science Public This week I am writing a post about my probably last Covid metaphor: immunity debt. What do people mean by that, I wondered? While trying to find out, I became aware of how slippery a concept this is; so I apologise in advance for misunderstandings. In 2021 a French group of researchers published a paper ...

Today's post is about the 'immunity debt' metaphor and metaphors used to contest that metaphor
#Metaphor #Covid #ImmunityDebt
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2022...