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Is there any evidence that unvaccinated people (particularly young people/children are more susceptible to Covid-19?
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Unvaccinated against what?
The planet simply has too little information right now on COVID-19 to be able to make any conclusions like what OP wants.
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Only in the sense that they have a history of ignoring medical instructions, which means they’ll probably continue to do so in the future, placing themselves (and others) at greater risk.
Anti-vaxxers might throw Covid-19 parties for children like parents threw chicken pox parties. I understand anti-vaxxers still have the chicken pox parties.
Only in the sense that people who are not vaccinated against the flu are more susceptible “to dying” because they get the flu at the same time they get a Covid-19 infection. That, at present, has been a small number,just included in co-morbidity because:
This is a small flu season, and a small COVID-19 season, and the chance of getting both at once is small, and:
People who test positive for the flu are counted as flu deaths.
No vaccine against COVID-19 has been developed & approved, yet.
Well, if people who are unvaccinated against measles actually get measles, and then recover from it, for anywhere from 6 months to 6 years following, they experience an immune state where their systems preferentially guard against measles.
It’s a phenomenon that has been observed so far only with measles, but is a great response to anyone who claims that “‘Natural’ immunity [ie, actually having and recovering from a disease] is better.”
People who have recently, and as “recently” as six years ago, in a few cases, had measles are more vulnerable to everything but measles. Their immune systems apparently are so ramped up to protect them from measles, that they are taking a laissez-faire attitude toward other diseases.
So, someone not vaccinated against the measles, who then caught the measles, but recovered, would be more susceptible to Covid-19.
Also, of course, anyone who was recovering from pertussis, or had lung or bronchial damage from pertussis would be more susceptible. And those would not even need to be anti-vaxxers-- just people unlucky enough to be exposed as babies before they were old enough to be vaccinated, who were exposed to the ignorant, probably, 85% of the adult population, who does not know that adults need pertussis boosters every 10 years in order to be safe around tiny babies. My OB told me this when I was pregnant, and fortunately, DH had been recently vaccinated by the Army, and my most recent vaccine was outdated, but only by a few years, not by 20 years, like most adults. I was vaccinated as soon as my son was born.
Ditto for anyone who was not vaccinated against any other disease that could have lasting effects on the respiratory system, which includes polio, mumps, and Hib, but polio is unusual in the US even among the unvaccinated, and respiratory residua are unusual in the US among those who have actually caught and recovered from mumps and Hib. Deafness is common among people recovered from Hib, and for people who had epiglottitis, all bets are off-- they could have movement disorders that look like CP, deafness, blindness, respiratory problems, cognitive deficits, the list goes on. They usually have experienced hypoxia, and parts of their brains died.
So, if an unvaccinated person has been lucky enough to remain free of the diseases he or she is not vaccinated against, No, there is no evidence. But if an unvaccinated person has caught any of the diseases for which he or she is not vaccinated against, the possibility that residua from the disease(s) are making the person more vulnerable is very likely.
Soory I should have been more specific. I was thinking of the typical vaccinations one received as a child against chickenpox, measles polio etc.
Thank you RivkahChaya. Thank you all. Very helpful.
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I read somewhere that people with flu vaccinations might have some small amount of resistance to coronavirus. Any truth to it? It doesn’t make sense to me, but these last few weeks have shown me how not an epidemiologist I am.
Edit: The hamsters duplicated my post, here.
The Coronavirus family includes several types of common cold virus, but not flu viruses, which belong to a different family, so probably not.
This is what is going on in New Rochelle, isn’t it? They had that big measles outbreak last year and now there are a ton of Covid-19 cases this year.
Not having some other illness, no matter what it is, is probably salutary.