Horowitz: Lockdown of children is harming immune systems and our best shot at herd immunity – By Daniel Horowitz (Conservative Review) / July 28 2020
It turns out there is something very deep behind the reason why children rarely get clinically ill from SARS-CoV-2. God’s intelligent design gave them an even greater degree of cross-immunity through common coronavirus colds than many adults have. Ignoring that fact and treating kids as if they are in danger from the virus, more than in our response to the flu, will likely harm them in the long run, ironically, blocking their ability to obtain the very immunity that makes SARS-CoV-2 a statistical non-issue with them.
A group of immunologists and medical researchers published a preprint study (prior to peer review) late last week showing that roughly 60% of blood samples from children who never had SARS-CoV-2 had antibodies from other coronaviruses that were cross-reactive to SARS-CoV-2. This study is a giant step in understanding why children appear to be so unaffected.
While several studies have shown that at least half of adults have cross-reactive T cells from other coronaviruses, this study demonstrates that children likely have an even greater degree of protection, which explains why even more children than adults are asymptomatic or very mildly symptomatic. Only 6% of adult blood samples had cross-reactive antibodies among the blood samples.
This demonstrates that allowing kids to be kids and come home every other day with a cold ensured that they were fortified against a coronavirus that could potentially be more deadly for some. Now, by turning kids into bubble babies and by overstating the threat of this virus to them by a factor of 100, we are ensuring that a generation of kids will be shielded from some of the more mild or common forms of coronavirus that they typically get over time.
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