Dan Luu2d ago

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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@danluu Iirc, there are rsv vaccines for infants. They’re pretty new. We had a kid in 2023 and, while we were in the hospital, one of the nurses said “do you want an rsv vaccine for your baby? We just got them in last week.”
Mar 26 at 12:22amWeb