Monday, 25 August 2025

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

quote [ Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. ]

A gladly rather dry account of medical people speculating on various illnesses becoming more common in the British Medical Journal; further contributing to everybody feeling a bit shitty as of late.

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Comments

steele said @ 11:58pm GMT on 26th Aug
I'm glad to see this article is making the rounds, but it depresses me to no end that Immunity Debt even has to be legitimized by being acknowledged like this. It never had any scientific backing and was just some term some docs in france came up with in 2022 to blame lockdowns that were practically nonexistent. Politicans and media, of course, ran with it. And now we've gotta rehash things we knew about covid back in 2020.

How the Coronavirus Short-Circuits the Immune System (Published 2020)


In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies found.

mechanical contrivance said @ 3:39pm GMT on 27th Aug
Measles can also cause immune amnesia.
steele said @ 6:11pm GMT on 27th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
Yup. And that measles vaccine, that people think are going to protect them from all these outbreaks happening, needs a working immune system to do its job. Anybody wanna start taking bets on how many more Covid surges before we start getting a measles season?

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