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It will be interesting to see if there was a rise in other autoimmune diseases and allergic disease in kids during the pandemic.

I'm on the West Coast and a lot of parents were advised not to allow their young children to interact indoors with people outside of their household until the kids were vaccinated. That sounded like a bad idea to me given that their immune systems were still developing, but I used to work in a lab that studied the hygiene hypothesis so my brain always goes there.

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Yes it’s certainly something worth monitoring over the coming years.

Very complex interactions between early life immunology and exposure to commensal bacteria and pathogens.

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The vaccine? DM 1 is an autoimmune disease the the mRNA vaccines have been known to trigger autoimmune diseases, RA etc. Hence, uptick in DM 1 in children over a year in to the pandemic, not in the beginning when the variant was more severe. It would be easy to check the vaccine (# of shots) in to cohort of kids DX w/ DMK compared to those vaccine naive. Just something to think about.

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Almost all the research showing an increase in T1DM demonstrates it long before vaccines were available, so we can be certain it is not related to the covid vaccines.

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Hello, have you got any advice for getting thew spike protein out of new born babies? My brothers child is 6 months old and we have become aware of the spike protein being present months to years onwards, DNA in the Pfizer vials, and the computational nanotechnology. I am trying to find doctors willing to look into this issue for advice. Thank you

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Will that NEJM letter be published as a full paper?

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