“Anyone with young children will quickly agree that our kids seem to be getting more sick, and sick more often than in the past,” said Rodney Russell, a professor of immunology and virology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
There isn’t one, but several factors at play, including a lack of primary care in the community and a shortage of children’s pain and fever medications parents have been grappling with since late summer.Article content “Because we didn’t see these viruses in the last few years, we’re seeing them all come together, and there isn’t that immunity that we usually see in older children.”
“So, if all of us, not just children have now had a couple of ‘germ-free’ years, then all of us may have lower antibody levels than we might have had without masking,” and other public health interventions, he said.Article content Dr. Mona Jabbour, interim chief of CHEO’s department of pediatrics: “In previous years, younger babies would have had these illnesses, and by the time they’re aged two, three, four, they have some immunity.”Mucus starts plugging the small airways. Young children “come in for bronchiolitis, they come in for pneumonia, they may require oxygen therapy, they may require respiratory support to help them breathe,” said Dr.
Saw this coming. We are not meant to be locked up with masks
Spoiler: Yes
They are spiking because people keep getting mnra shots that damage the immune system.
You think
Or, hear out the science, did letting a respiratory illness run amok for months lead to more respiratory infections?