Experts: Covid-19 measures compromised immune systems; children face ‘multiple viral infections’ at once


The following is an excerpt from the Daily Mail.

Children are turning up in doctors’ clinics infected with as many as three different types of viruses, in what experts believe is the result of their immune systems being weakened from two years of Covid lockdowns and mask-wearing.

Thomas Murray, an infection-control expert and associate professor of pediatrics at Yale, told The Washington Post on Monday that his team was seeing children with combinations of seven common viruses – adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus

Some children were admitted with two viruses and a few with three, he said.

‘That’s not typical for any time of year and certainly not typical in May and June,’ he said.

CDC data obtained by DailyMail.com showed lower overall levels of influenza infections among young children – but an abnormal surge starting several weeks ago during the beginning of the summer months, normally a dead period for respiratory infections.

Other strange patterns have emerged.

The rhinovirus, known as the common cold, is normally not severe enough to send people to hospital – but now it is. RSV normally tapers off in the warmer weather, as does the influenza, but they have not.

And the Yamagata strain of flu has not been seen since early 2020 – which researchers say could because it is extinct, or perhaps just dormant and waiting for the right moment to return.

‘It’s a massive natural experiment,’ said Michael Mina, an epidemiologist and chief science officer at the digital health platform eMed, told the Post. 

When you have a lot of people who don’t have immunity, the impact of the season is less. It’s like free rein,’ he said. The virus can therefore ‘overcome seasonal barriers.’ 

Ellen Foxman, an immunobiologist at the Yale School of Medicine, whose research explores why viruses can make one person very sick but leave another relatively unharmed, said that babies born during the pandemic are likely to be of great interest to scientists.

‘Those kids did not have infection at a crucial time of lung development,’ she said. (Continued…)

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7 thoughts on “Experts: Covid-19 measures compromised immune systems; children face ‘multiple viral infections’ at once”

  1. GEORGE fate Eady

    LADY THANKS FOR PUTTING OUT WHAT MOST WONT TOUCH . THE DEMOCRATES ARE DESTORYING THIS NATION . THEY HAVE DESTORYED OVER 200 YEARS OF WORK IN JEST 2 YEARS .AND FOR GREED OF MONEY AND POWER .

  2. The official media “narrative” in the US is apparently somewhat different: that the Covid virus itself is somehow causing these other viruses to behave differently. Of course not a shred of proof is offered for this outlandish claim, but it has the benefit of removing any blame or causality from the Covid measures themselves. This leaves the door open to continuing to use those measures in the US. It also protects the US government entities who have pushed those measures on the public.

  3. If the children have been vaccinated it could be that their immune systems have been overwhelmed from dealing with billions of spike proteins, similar to observations related to patients with reactivated VZV and Bell’s Palsy. If they have no jabs but are positive for COVID antibodies it could be that they are experiencing an outgrowth of Long COVID. The listed causes are less likely.

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