Covid, Research, and Epistemology: A Conversation with Chris Masterjohn PhD | Salty Talk 034 | THRR
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The Risk Reward Relationship Between Older People and Younger People
i'm starting to synthesize that the risk reward relationship being so different between old people and young people is largely a result of the younger people having stronger immunity in general. But i also think just stronger mucosal immunity in general and social immunity, is not just innate. And there was one study that showed that if you got a cold in the week before you got it completely destroyed your immune system within 24 hours. So these kids are just sticking their fingers in everything - they're always sticking their hands down. They can actually mount an effective response when they get sick. Whereas the child's problem is mainly that they're too much off-the-shelf immunosuppressive drugs which don
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