Can someone do a fact-check on the claim that "healthy" children die of seasonal flu? Is it more likely an underlying problem not detected?https://twitter.com/rebekah_diamond/status/1363627257902866433 …
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Indeed. There is no such thing as survival of the healthiest. Darwin described life as survival of the fittest because what's fit for one season may not be fit for the next.
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I regret that I can like this only once.
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There's no such thing as healthy. Sexual reproduction ensures variation in every generation, especially in the immune system. Natural (or otherwise) Selection then determines the probability of each gene reaching the next reproductive round, based on pathogens, environment, etc.
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Do you think healthy people never die ?
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They were HEALTHY BEFORE THEY CONTRACTED INFLUENZA.
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No it does not
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No it doesn’t. That immune system has worked just fine until presented with this bug
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Then let's not say healthy. Let's say "otherwise indistinguishable from peers in normally measured physiological parameters". I'm sure we can one day identify some gene expression that puts them at risk for that one in a million reaction. Healthy is easier in the meantime.
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