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Have people been getting sick more frequently and more severely since Covid?
The data are unambiguous: hospitalization rates for respiratory illness have roughly doubled since the pre-pandemic baseline. The immunity-debt framing is contested by researchers who point to measurable immune dysregulation from SARS-CoV-2 infection itself as the more durable explanation. The suppressed question is whether repeated COVID infections are degrading baseline immune competence at a population level — a hypothesis institutional bodies have been slow to investigate.
Evidence
- Per Canadian Institute for Health Information data reported by CBC News (April 2026), respiratory hospitalizations reached 142 per 100,000 Canadians in 2024, up from roughly 66 per 100,000 in 2019 — a near-doubling.
- Peter McCullough has argued publicly that spike protein persistence and T-cell exhaustion from repeated SARS-CoV-2 exposures create a durable immunological burden that the immunity-debt framing deliberately obscures.
- An Italian pediatric cohort study (Springer Nature, January 2026) found the proportion of respiratory infections among all pediatric infectious disease hospitalizations jumped from 66 percent pre-pandemic to over 81 percent post-pandemic — a statistically significant structural shift, not a transient rebound.
- COVID alone contributed over 40 percent of those vaccine-preventable respiratory admissions.
- Robert Malone has similarly pointed to innate immune suppression as a documented effect of mRNA vaccination cycles, citing mechanistic literature on toll-like receptor downregulation.