The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures that were put in place to control it had far-reaching consequences for humanity. This once-in-a-generation event affected education, the world economy, and – most obviously – physical and mental health. But there was one projected consequence that didn’t actually come to fruition, according to new analysis. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

With lockdowns and stay-at-home orders keeping people across the world from mixing and socializing for many months, experts feared that there could be a negative side-effect for our immune systems. This could, they theorized, cause a “disease rebound” when lockdowns were lifted, whereby we would have seen a boom in other infectious disease. Howe

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