New research out of Japan suggests that the gut bacteria in charge of breaking down a sugar called fucose lowers the immune response after vaccination.
Babies whose mothers had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 at any point during pregnancy were developing very similarly to others whose mothers never had COVID-19.
The study's findings strongly suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic affected many children significantly, and that many kids understood the severity of the situation just as much as any adult.