Post by Nadica (She/Her) on Jun 24, 2024 8:42:07 GMT
"Immunity Debt"? Established 2021 - Published Oct 6, 2022
Since 2021 Immunity debt has been used to explain why people, in particular children should be exposed to infectious diseases, the concept is that not being regularly exposed to pathogens their immune systems are unprepared when they do encounter them. The concept has been cited as a lockdown harm and as a reason why masks and in some cases even ventilation and clean air should not be used as mitigation measures in schools. It has been argued by some paediatricians in the UK and elsewhere that due to immunity debt infections don’t just catch up but overshoot.
Immunity debt is a form of extension of hygiene dogma, in practise it looks a lot like an extension of the thinking that supported herd immunity by infection as a strategy to handling the pandemic.
It is worth noting that those who raise concerns about immunity debt are generally the same people who initially claimed children were considerably less likely to be infected and didn’t contribute significantly to transmission. These are also generally the same people who still claim the majority of covid infections in children occur outside of schools. This is despite contact tracing and testing studies demonstrating the direction of transmission, the latest being a comprehensive study from Italy.
Although there had been some reporting in May 2021, immunity debt entered the public lexicon late June 2021 after a Wall Street Journal article went viral.
Post-Covid-19, World Risks Having to Pay Off ‘Immunity Debt’
Many people had little exposure to common viruses during social distancing, meaning bugs could spread more quickly once countries reopen. By Miho Inada
www.wsj.com/articles/post-covid-19-world-risks-having-to-pay-off-immunity-debt-11624863679?mod=e2tw
Robert Cohen, a professor at a pediatric research center near Paris called Activ, calls this “immunity debt.”
Cohen quoted a paper from December 2020.
The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
Rachel E. Baker, Sang Woo Park, Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, and Bryan T. Grenfell
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720203/
In the next few weeks a number of news outlets around the world published their own version of the Wall Street Journal article citing the same sources. Various experts and professionals with large platforms online also drew attention to the articles treating immunity debt as a well established concept.
But there’s a problem with this, before 2021 no one had used the term immunity debt.
Several people have gone in search for the origins of immunity debt.
PubMed is a searchable database of scientific papers, a reliable resource used across the globe.
Go to the site to read from here on out: The writer begins listing out twitter threads and bits of articles to make their argument and the images don't transfer to the forum well or easily.
Since 2021 Immunity debt has been used to explain why people, in particular children should be exposed to infectious diseases, the concept is that not being regularly exposed to pathogens their immune systems are unprepared when they do encounter them. The concept has been cited as a lockdown harm and as a reason why masks and in some cases even ventilation and clean air should not be used as mitigation measures in schools. It has been argued by some paediatricians in the UK and elsewhere that due to immunity debt infections don’t just catch up but overshoot.
Immunity debt is a form of extension of hygiene dogma, in practise it looks a lot like an extension of the thinking that supported herd immunity by infection as a strategy to handling the pandemic.
It is worth noting that those who raise concerns about immunity debt are generally the same people who initially claimed children were considerably less likely to be infected and didn’t contribute significantly to transmission. These are also generally the same people who still claim the majority of covid infections in children occur outside of schools. This is despite contact tracing and testing studies demonstrating the direction of transmission, the latest being a comprehensive study from Italy.
Although there had been some reporting in May 2021, immunity debt entered the public lexicon late June 2021 after a Wall Street Journal article went viral.
Post-Covid-19, World Risks Having to Pay Off ‘Immunity Debt’
Many people had little exposure to common viruses during social distancing, meaning bugs could spread more quickly once countries reopen. By Miho Inada
www.wsj.com/articles/post-covid-19-world-risks-having-to-pay-off-immunity-debt-11624863679?mod=e2tw
Robert Cohen, a professor at a pediatric research center near Paris called Activ, calls this “immunity debt.”
Cohen quoted a paper from December 2020.
The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
Rachel E. Baker, Sang Woo Park, Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, and Bryan T. Grenfell
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720203/
In the next few weeks a number of news outlets around the world published their own version of the Wall Street Journal article citing the same sources. Various experts and professionals with large platforms online also drew attention to the articles treating immunity debt as a well established concept.
But there’s a problem with this, before 2021 no one had used the term immunity debt.
Several people have gone in search for the origins of immunity debt.
PubMed is a searchable database of scientific papers, a reliable resource used across the globe.
Go to the site to read from here on out: The writer begins listing out twitter threads and bits of articles to make their argument and the images don't transfer to the forum well or easily.