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Originally Posted by Cherie

yes, apparently there is a new childhood respiratory illness doing the rounds now that causes shortness of breath and that is down to low immunity due to lockdowns

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...en-this-summer

I call BS on this, kids have been back in school for a good 18 months and all of the normal sniffles and sneezes went around last year. If anything last year was quite a "bad one" - loads of little bugs going around in early winter 2020 after the "long" homeschooling period.

Why would they have low immunity currently?

Schools haven't been "off" since February 2021... and even then it was just normal Xmas break extended by a month or so.

Unless they're claiming kids are mixing less outside of school? That doesn't ring true from what I've seen either.