The unexpected surge of other pathogens starting last summer has challenged the wisdom of frequent sanitizing, social distancing, remote work and education, and routine mask-wearing, especially applied to children.
An otherwise mild adenovirus may have played a role in an unprecedented spate of "Severe hepatitis in healthy young children." Dutch scientists told STAT that children are at particular risk because so many have barely had microbial exposure beyond their households.
Marion Koopman's team at Erasmus Medical Center's Department of Viroscience found a dearth of antibodies to common respiratory viruses in young children's blood, while clinical virologist Hubert Nesters suspects pregnant mothers who sheltered more than usual passed on fewer antibodies to children born during the pandemic.
"Children are excluded from school because they have runny noses, when it is precisely children's exposure to other kids with runny noses that creates a robust immune system when they reach adulthood," they wrote in Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America and Arizona State University.
She noted U.K. researcher Alasdair Munro just observed "a children's emergency department shift full of cases of bronchiolitis, RSV wheeze and gastroenteritis. IN THE SUMMER." Bienen suspects the second consecutive summer of RSV is likely due to children leaving another school year of strict COVID mitigation.
University of Guelph viral immunologist Byram Bridle, who warned about lockdown's risk to children's immune systems a year ago, challenged the renewed masking of children, by mandate and parental choice, in his newsletter this week.
The whole complement of COVID mitigations is producing "a micro-generation of children who will have been isolated like no other human beings in history," Bridle said.
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