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Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter
Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter

Thread 4) The willful neglect of children during this pandemic will go down in history as among the most sociopathic heinous political decisions of the pandemic. Here are record after record for pediatric #COVID19 hospitalizations in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿— just continued surges of kids in 🏥 w/ #Omicron

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Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter
Dr Zoë Hyde on Twitter
Dr Zoë Hyde on Twitter

Thread Shocking data from England. On 22 October, 4% of pre-primary & primary school children & 9% of high school children were estimated to CURRENTLY have COVID-19.

Infections are rising in parents: 25 Sep: 0.8% 2 Oct: 1.2% 9 Oct: 1.2% 16 Oct: 1.5% 22 Oct: 1.8% https://ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/29october2021

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Dr Zoë Hyde on Twitter
Michael Mina on Twitter
Michael Mina on Twitter

Thread Now that the kid has their first vaccine AND a sample for antibody test, there will be 3-4 weeks to confirm if the child has antibodies to COVID.

This long period of time offers tons of flexibility to ensure a highly accurate result is obtained - I’ll give examples below

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Michael Mina on Twitter
Isabella Eckerle on Twitter
Isabella Eckerle on Twitter

Thread Our pre-print on a #SARSCoV2 #Alpha variant outbreak in a primary #school in Geneva - epidemiological and virological investigation - what have we found & what have we done? #COVID19 #children #Switzerland

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Isabella Eckerle on Twitter
Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study
Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study
Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study
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Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study
WesElyMD on Twitter
WesElyMD on Twitter

Thread 1/🧵 “Let kids get #Covid”

This struthious (ostrich-like) mantra is wrong-headed.

✅ Kids can get super sick w #COVID ✅ Kids can suffer #LongCovid ✅ Kids spread virus to vulnerable adults ✅ Kids wears #masks proudly ✅ Kids should be #vaccinated when able

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WesElyMD on Twitter
Children with long covid
Children with long covid

Children with long covid:

“Almost half of children who contract covid-19 may have lasting symptoms,” Known in March 2021

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Children with long covid
Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools
Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools

Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools “The results have been stunning: in San Francisco schools there have been only seven cases of transmission this year. Contrast that to England, where last week 270,000 schoolchildren were infected. Of those, around 1 per cent may be hospitalised”.

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Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools
Amber Schmidtke, PhD on Twitter
Amber Schmidtke, PhD on Twitter

Thread I'm sorry to point out that @GaDPH has a newly reported pediatric death from COVID-19 in today's report. He was a 9 year old boy from Richmond county. His is the 17th pediatric death since the start of the pandemic. I'm so very sorry for his family, his community, his care team.

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Amber Schmidtke, PhD on Twitter