[grey_whiskers]

A poster, InklingBooks
over on a thread at Instapundit, writes:

I’m not a doctor, but based on this remark in the Live Science article about the relatively few children who’re victims of the Corona virus I will hazard a guess that extends what it says in this remark.

The innate immune system is the first line of defense against pathogens. Cells in that system respond immediately to foreign invaders. (The adaptive immune system, by contrast, learns to recognize specific pathogens, but takes longer to join the battle.) If the innate immune response is stronger in children exposed to 2019 nCoV, they may fight off infection more readily than adults, suffering only mild symptoms.

https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fwhy-kids-missing-coronavirus-cases.html%3AdCiN90AlcxcILg0U95Xc0zMfLKI&cuid=4235850

It seems sensible to assume that the innate immune system protecting a child’s lungs must be more effective than that in adults. Their breathing passages are shorter and their adaptive immune system has yet to learn what pathogens to fight. That stronger innate immune response (attacking anything foreign) may give them added protection against a virus like the Corona.

One peculiarity of the Corona virus is that its infection must plant itself well inside our lungs. Throat swabs often fail to detect it. That contrasts with many other viral infections that first settle in our throats and then move to our lungs. A throat infection is uncomfortable but not deadly and gives our adaptive immune system to prepare to fight it before it reaches our lungs, where it can be lethal. Because the Corona virus bypasses our throat and infects our lungs directly, the response of our adaptive immune system is delayed.

Of course, there’s also another factor suggested by the article, that the immune system of adults overreacts to a Corona virus infection, making matters worse.

Adults are also more susceptible to a detrimental immune response that causes a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), said Dr. James Cherry, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine. A complicated imbalance of immune cell activity sends inflammation into the lungs into overdrive, ultimately causing fluid to fill the alveoli, or air sacs, according to research published in the journal Annals of Translational Medicine

ARDS is the primary way that the Corona kills.

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Also consider Antibod-Dependent -Enhancement, which I found explained on another post from ZeroHedge (I know, I know) and which I posted here:
http://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3814901,64

[Battle Axe]

See Medcram videos # 1-15. The factor is smoking. Almost half of the men in China smoke, only 1.8% women. It's not men and it's not Chinese, it's smoking.

[9YearLurker]

Are men more the ones out and about in Chinese culture? Certainly that could account for a 54% majority. A 68% majority? Likely not so much.

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[11th_VA]

2019 nCoV - You mean the Wuhan Virus ?

[z3n]

Men are more likely to shake hands than women, and adults more than children.

Just a thought.

[bigbob]

And how many have died who are not Chinese?

Genetics.

[GulfMan]

What you lookin' at ...

[null and void]

"From now on they will be calling it “COVID-19”, but I doubt that moniker will really catch on with the general public."

I would have gone with CORVID.

A corvid is a bird in the family that includes crows and ravens, birds often associated with carrion and death...

[Boogieman]

Women and children not hardest hit?!?

[Buttons12]

Cull the herd, save Social Security. Sneeze on a gramps today!
Whatever happened to the Chinese veneration for elders?

[Fai Mao]

1/2 of all Chinese men smoke.

smokers get sick more often.

[arthurus]

There is a video purportedly from Wuhan with attendants in hazmat suits putting three inert children into a zip up bag in what appears to be a hospital hallway..

[Abathar]

China has a 13% higher man to woman ratio to start with due mostly to their one child policy and abortion, so has that been figured in already?

[goldstategop]

What?? I thought it would be women, minorities and children hardest hit. Oh well.

[rightwingcrazy]

“The 2003 outbreak of SARS struck more women among younger adults (20-54), but was more prevalent among men in older ages (55 and up).”

In other news, young men tend to be stronger and more robust than young women, but older women have a longer life expectancy than older men.

[hanamizu]

I’m sure if men simply declare themselves to be women, the virus will respect their new “truth” since male and female are really just social constructs.