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> - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity Did adults do better than children against SARS-Cov-2 immunity-wise? I would agree
by jraph 3y ago
> - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity
Did adults do better than children against SARS-Cov-2 immunity-wise? I would agree in general but I was under the impression that SARS-CoV-2 was a new virus nobody / few people were immune to.
Or did some people have for some reason an immune system prepared against SARS-Cov-2? How? Were there viruses similar enough before?
- HideousKojima 3y agoIIRC exposure to the common cold helped with COVID immunity. Something like 15% of colds are caused by various forms of Coronavirus (forms of Rhinovirus cause the majority) so this makes some level of sense.
- lamontcg 3y agoat least one study found that COVID outcomes weren't any different in people who had donated blood who had HCoV antibodies vs. those without.
- Izkata 3y agoKids have much better innate immune systems than adults, so when no one has immunity through the adaptive immune system (what antibodies are a part of), kids do better than adults.