Moreso, children rely more on their innate immune response as they haven’t encountered nearly as many patterns to build an effective adaptive immune response. Being a novel virus, only the innate immune response is effective. As we grow older, our adaptive immune response becomes more prevalent. Generally, this is better equipped to handle the bugs in our environment. However, with something completely foreign like this, it’s more of a hindrance. Those in their golden years gradually lose their innate response entirely, and thus the high mortality rate.
Thank you, John! I’ll use some of the words in your reply as keywords for finding more information.
Sometime since 10 o’clock, Pacific Time, I was unable to access Free Republic. Had to use something a little more radical than a proxy to access it just now. I doubt that it’s a web server problem on your end, unless a new IP or IP pool was blocked there since then (doubting that here). I’m guessing that it’s a DNS or IP problem from somewhere out my way here.
Anyone else having difficulty accessing FR now?
Innate vs adaptive. I wonder if this is part of the never discussed biological cost of immunizations.