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There's a difference between being exposed to dirt and being exposed to viral diseases, though. Playing outside in the leaves will likely trigger healthy immune responses. Contracting COVID-19 may lead to long term health issues.
"The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome"
> This pandemic intersects with a decades-long decline in microbial diversity and ancestral microbes due to hygiene, antibiotics, and urban living (the hygiene hypothesis). High-risk groups succumbing to COVID-19 include those with preexisting conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, which are also associated with microbiome abnormalities. Current pandemic control measures and practices will have broad, uneven, and potentially long-term effects for the human microbiome across the planet, given the implementation of physical separation, extensive hygiene, travel barriers, and other measures that influence overall microbial loss and inability for reinoculation. Although much remains uncertain or unknown about the virus and its consequences, implementing pandemic control practices could significantly affect the microbiome.
Does anyone have a link to the actual paper cited? There's nothing in the article indicating a title or link.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2010217118
It has a heading "PERSPECTIVE" -- is that like an op-ed for science?
Title: The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome
Does anyone have a link to the actual paper cited? There's nothing in the article indicating a title or link.
Does anyone have a link to the actual paper cited? There's nothing in the article indicating a title or link.
It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh
There's a difference between being exposed to dirt and being exposed to viral diseases, though. Playing outside in the leaves will likely trigger healthy immune responses. Contracting COVID-19 may lead to long term health issues.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Wet markets" are just farmers' markets.
... that sell wild caught animals, and usually don’t have a domesticated counterpart.