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Originally Posted by Barnes
We are talking about a newborn here. They receive antibodies from the mother just before birth and that's all they got. They have little to no means to fight off anything brought in from outside a mothers germ pool. A newborn cannot build immunity if their bodies are incapable of mounting a defense in the first place.
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So long as the mom did the smart thing and breast fed the kid the colostrum right after birth they are fine. Besides, how'd we all survive before the invention of hand sanitizer.