Claim: Research shows lower respiratory tract infections in childhood can cause increased risk of death from infection in later life.
Fact-check: Research on long term effects of childhood infections misreported - Full Fact
Verdict: researchers found an association between these childhood infections and death from respiratory disease in general later in life–but this doesn't prove they are the cause, and the vast majority of deaths recorded were not from infections.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Dr Fergus Brown
Date published: 2023-03-14T00:00:00