Masks, social distancing may have weakened children’s immune system- Report

COVID-19 : Social distancing and using masks due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis may have saved many, but they have also weakened the immune system in children, believe experts in England.

According to them, children for the last 15 months or so have not had great encounters with viral pathogens, causing seasonal flu. As a result, their bodies have not been able to build the immunity to fight the bugs in the post-pandemic days.

Virologists are also concerned about Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a virus that leads to serious lung infection, and sometimes even death, in children under the age of one. Also, there’s no vaccine for it, reported The Guardian.

Experts said that in the pre-Covid days, RSV brought more children to the hospital than any other seasonal bug. However, masks and social distancing kept children away from contracting the disease during the pandemic.