![]() ![]() “This already happened last year,” said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar and adjunct assistant professor at Johns Hopkins. “A large portion of the population probably is lacking immunity and haven’t gotten infected with a number of other pathogens, and what we’re seeing now is a burst of all these people in one year are getting infected,” said Andrew Pekosz, an immunology professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.īecause testing so far isn’t showing a novel virus at play, the outbreak in China shouldn’t pose concern to health officials in the U.S., experts said. The CDC has endorsed the view that avoiding infectious diseases for a prolonged period makes a population more susceptible when lockdowns, masking, social distancing and other precautions cease. The term “immunity debt” gained traction to describe it, and China might now be paying back its debt on a delayed schedule - the result of maintaining Covid lockdowns longer than other countries. saw a similar outbreak last year after ending formal pandemic precautions: Flu, Covid and RSV peaked at the same time, a confluence dubbed the “tripledemic.” POLITICO asked health care experts what to make of it. Still, last week’s demand by the World Health Organization for information from China on “reported clusters of pneumonia in children in Northern China” reminded the world of the start of the pandemic nearly four years ago, and triggered anxiety that a new pathogen may again cause a global outbreak.Ĭhina’s health ministry said Sunday that flu and other known viruses and bacteria are causing the surge, not a novel virus. ![]() Many children have never previously encountered the viruses or bacteria that can cause illness, and are particularly susceptible. ![]()
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