Why are children immune from covid mostly?

It has to do with some of the receptors that COVID binds to being developed later in life. It prevents symptoms but last I heard they could still replicate the virus and breathe it out to spread it.

Just more evidence the virus was made in a lab

I semi-take back my comment at R1, I double-checked and the receptor thing is just a theory.

>It’s still unclear why that might be the case. One theory is that children are more frequently exposed to coronaviruses, conferring some protection. Another is that children have fewer ACE2 receptors, a target of the coronavirus, in their upper airways. Still another theory is that their smaller lungs aren’t as good at projecting droplets or generating aerosols.

The article is from Dec 10.

They don't get sick, they just spread.

Children are more likely to be asymptomatic or presymptomatic, but that does not mean immune.

20% of patients overall, vs ~33% of children, are asymptomatic.

ER nurse here. I caught it from an 18 month old baby.

R6 - thank you for confirming that. It's been a sore spot for me and my roommate as here in Romania only kids 6 and up need masks but NOBODY masks kids at all. When we do go grocery shopping or for a brief run to the mall like last night, we have double masks and visors but I mean kids are running around and coughing on us and I say nothing but she's a bit more of a spitfire and says things. I am afraid to get in a fight but she says her aunt who is a doctor told her the kids can carry it and, I secretly think she is sick of these women who are being "attention whores" showing everyone their kids with no thought to COVID. But what can you say?

Children are filthy little things. Maybe they should be kept in cages.

If it might be the fact that children have had many more recent coronavirus infections than adults, then there should be a correlation between that and people with children living with them on a regular basis also being less likely to get infected because, as we all know, those kids bring all those germs home and get the adults in their lives sick starting from the first day of day care or kindergarten.

I hadn't had a cold in probably five years but after the kids I took care of started school, shit, I must have had four colds just that first winter. They were constantly sick. So much so that I started to think that the most important reason for kindergarten to exist wasn't to teach kids the alphabet or numbers but to kickstart their immune systems by throwing them into a plague environment.

Welcome DJT at r8! How's retirement?

[quote] Children are filthy little things. Maybe they should be kept in cages.

There are other alternatives.

Maybe they are like the baby and the drunk in The Andromeda Strain and just breath more shallow or something. Oh, belated spoiler alert to those who haven’t read or seen The Andromeda Strain, sorry!

[quote] and just breath more shallow or something

Oh, DEAR!

One theory is that youngsters are given the MMR shot, measles-mumps-rubella. College students typically have to have boosters for it before they start college, and scientists have noticed that the seriousness for infection for these age groups is much less than for the rest of the population in the US. Similarly, there have been large-scale MMR vaccination programs in southern Africa in recent decades, and the rates of life-threatening Covid cases there is unusually low too. Scientists hypothesize that the Mumps component of the vaccine is somehow protecting people against life-threatening infection with Covid. (Mumps virus is structurally similar to the Covid19 virus). The MMR vaccination doesn't immunize you fully of course, but it does seem to protect against deadly cases of Covid. This was publicized by the American Medical Journal on Oct. 23. Look it up, there is lots of science to suggest the connection, it's not just a crackpot idea. A doctor I know who got an early vaccine told his wife to go ahead and get a Mumps booster; my doctor wrote me a prescription for it. They cost about $35 without insurance, and in 26 states you can just go to a pharmacy and get one without even an prescription. It takes 3 weeks for the shot to be fully effective. I got one in early November. There is a lot about this on the internet and there is a big demand for the shots right now.

Because this is the boomer doomer.