29 November

"Schools and daycares are sending letters home to parents talking about this "immunity debt.” They’re saying that healthy children are getting sicker, even dying, because they weren't exposed to enough germs over the last two years. Newspapers and TV stations across the country are running with it, proposing it as a "possible reason" for this year's explosion in pediatric hospitalizations." From the US. I'm hearing the same thing here. To be clear, there is no such thing as immunity debt, it's scientific nonsense. The reason children are getting sick in huge numbers there is that Covid has damaged their immune systems. It's starting here too, kids getting infections with all sorts of things, from RSV to chickenpox.