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MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 :
"Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen septic inflammation associated with COVID-19 infection
[...] The protection was mediated by long-lived myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) previously reported inhibiting septic inflammation and mortality in several experimental models.
[...] The milder symptoms seen in the 955 sailors on the U.S.S Roosevelt who tested positive for COVID-19 (only one hospitalization) may have been a consequence of the fact that the MMR vaccinations are given to all U.S. Navy recruits. In addition, epidemiological data suggest a correlation between people in geographical locations who routinely receive the MMR vaccine and reduced COVID-19 death rates. COVID-19 has not had a big impact on children, and the researchers hypothesize that one reason children are protected against viral infections that induce sepsis is their more recent and more frequent exposures to live attenuated vaccines that can also induce the trained suppressive MDSCs that limit inflammation and sepsis."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ilsa on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:58PM (5 children)
So basically anti-vaxxers are losing out twice because not only are they at risk of contracting measles, etc, but they are also more likely to be severely affected by covid. And of course, they won't get the eventual covid vaccine either cause... vaccines.
Covid is turning out to be the worlds greatest IQ test. I wish I could be smug about it, but the needless collateral damage caused by these morons really sours the schadenfreude.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @10:08PM (1 child)
Dont most antivaxxers kids get measles? They are probably more immune to covid since they will have a stronger immune response than to the vaccine (which mimics mild illness). Also if they hang out with other people who get measles that will be like regular booster shots for them.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Taibhsear on Thursday August 06 2020, @12:35PM
That's not how that works. Also the stronger immune response is what causes most of the damage in covid infection.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday August 05 2020, @10:11PM (1 child)
Covid is already the world's greatest IQ test.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @11:14PM
Yes, if you listen to the WHO you die.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @11:47PM
No it is the basic math test. The one that the "educated" populace totally failed.
Maybe counting their debts will reacquaint them with arithmetics; maybe not.
FTFY