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by arez 1270 days ago
can't be true imo that would mean the virus would circulate more and more, which isn't the case. The numbers are going down in almost all countries due to build up of immunity, because people got it multiple times. In most countries the virus became endemic and the waves are getting smaller
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35027728/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33884644/

here are a couple studies showing that covid can cause immune system deregulation effects.

there are plenty more if you go and look.

even mild cases have been shown to cause last impact to the immune system.

There are several preprints that speculate this immune system deregulation is partially responsible for the abrupt spike in rsv and flu happening.

Those links you posted are about acute cases, which probably means those patients had other health issues (being overweight, diabetes etc). It's not a convincing argument that there's some kind of vast immune depletion going on in the general populous as a result of covid.