Mastodawn

I've been dealing with a bad case of RSV. At one point, I said to someone, "at least this will help my immunity", but then I looked it up and it turns out getting RSV doesn't seem to give you much immunity to RSV. So much for that!

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/163/4/693/944323

And there's a theory that covid somehow reduces people's immunity to RSV below the already low levels found in pre-covid studies. Also, I wonder why the RSV vaccine is only approved for older adults and infants?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@danluu hey, this is the exciting content, at least for me!

my understanding is that vaccine approval is a cost/benefit decision based on how expensive a trial would be; so for RSV they only did it for "at risk" populations and didn't bother doing it for adults. there is definitely irrational decisionmaking in there, but i don't know who to blame

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Christie Koehler 1d ago

@whitequark @danluu FWIW I was able to get the RSV vaccine and I’m not a senior nor an infant but have other health issues. My pulmonologist ordered it. I don’t know what’s required to establish eligibility for adults, but it could be worth a conversation!