‘Immunity debt’: Why experts say this new term promotes COVID-19 ‘misinformation’
are weaker now, due to a lack of exposure to viruses while observing COVID-19 public health measures over the last two-and-a-half years.
“It imagines that the immune system is like a muscle where, if you’re not using it, then you lose it, it atrophies.” But this is a function of age affecting the immune system, not because it is not getting enough exposure to illnesses, he said. “In other words, you don’t have to keep getting sick in order to be healthy. It makes no sense at all in any way, shape or form — when we encounter a pathogen and we form an immune response to it, that is a lifelong memory, no question.”Dr. Samira Jeimy, an allergist and clinical immunologist at St Joseph’s Health Care London, agrees, saying the idea that one’s immune system can be weakened due to lack of exposure to illness “shows a basic lack of understanding of how the immune system works.
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