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You're right about that. Children are practically immune. As I understand this has to do with innate vs acquired immunity. Children are born with very strong in
by allovernow 7y ago
You're right about that. Children are practically immune. As I understand this has to do with innate vs acquired immunity. Children are born with very strong innate immunity and as we age innate immunity decreases while acquired immunity increases, untill old age where both decline.
- zamfi 7y agoHuh, interesting hypothesis. But I wonder why flu hits very young children so hard, then? Is SARS-CoV-2 more handily defeated by the innate system than flu?
- watwut 7y agoNew born child immune system is pretty weak. But from what I gathered, coronavirus deaths are all about pneumonia and lungs. Old peoples lungs are damaged due to being used for years.