| ▲ | ahmedfromtunis 14 hours ago | |
As someone who is *not* interested in biology, I don't understand why this "immunity debt" is driving so much debate. If I understand Vox's definition of the term[0] correctly, this should be very easy to confirm or debunk. Why it isn't been the case yet? [0]: "A central premise of immunity debt is that for many infectious diseases, repeat infections are milder than the first infection." | ||
| ▲ | nomel 14 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> A central premise of immunity debt is that for many infectious diseases, repeat infections are milder than the first infection. This is also the fundamental, well understood, mechanism of vaccines and herd immunity [1]: "Immunological memory" [2]. I think that sentence is very irresponsible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity [2] Immunological memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunological_memory | ||