Yes, Everyone Really Is Sick a Lot More Often After Covid
It's not your imagination: Around the world, people really are getting sick more often than before the pandemic
Hasnain says:
Surprised immunity debt is still the leading theory when so many studies show COVID screws the immune system.
“The resulting research, based on data collected from more than 60 organizations and public health agencies, shows that 44 countries and territories have reported at least one infectious disease resurgence that’s at least ten times worse than the pre-pandemic baseline.
The post-Covid global surge of illnesses — viral and bacterial, common and historically rare — is a mystery that researchers and scientists are still trying to definitively explain. The way Covid lockdowns shifted baseline immunities is a piece of the puzzle, as is the pandemic’s hit to overall vaccine administration and compliance. Climate change, rising social inequality and wrung-out health-care services are contributing in ways that are hard to measure.”