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
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
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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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”.
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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