This is not true - respiratory DATAMART assesses positivity in symptomatic patients attending specific hospital sentinel sites. Even then, if you have symptoms & go to hospital, your chances of having #COVID19 is <5% (from graph) - you have a >95% chance of having another virus👇
Is anyone aware of any publication showing a 2nd or 3rd #sarscov2 infection in a CHILD has worse outcomes? Surely we would know by now? Everything we know tells us otherwise - deaths down, hospitalizations down, PIMS-TS gone (for long covid see 👉 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00167-5/fulltext)
This is such a useful graph hidden in the supplement of a NEJM paper (Thanks Tracy):
👉 By 150 days post-vaccine, #SARSCoV2 infection rates were nearly equal in vaccinated & unvaccinated teens. We would have to vaccinate all kids every 3-4 months - not practical or feasible
The most reasonable, evidence-based thing I've ever read on screen time for kids https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/health-impacts-screen-time-guide-clinicians-parents
Thank you @PaulRoundy1 - this message is so hard to convey, especially to those who are convinced that #COVID19 is kids is more harmful than other viruses that have been circulating for many more years than #SARSCoV2
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Imagine a virus that is claimed to damage immune systems and yet protects (very efficiently!) against infection by itself 🤦 what the pandemic has done - sadly - is damage common sense
“Past #SARSCoV2 infection protection against re-infection” @LancetMicrobe
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Worth reading this thread:
“The obsession over SARS-CoV-2 deaths in children to the detriment of other causes of deaths (not just viral infection) is problematic”
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R to @ShamezLadhani: 2nd: all #Omicron fatalities occurred after primary Omicron infection
Since so many kids had Omicron reinfections, this suggests that immunity from prior infection helps protect against severe/fatal #COVID19 in subsequent infections (i.e. reinfections = less severe/fatal)
(3/3)
R to @ShamezLadhani: 1st: the infection fatality rate (IFR) in children has fallen with each #SARSCoV2 variant wave in England:
Wild-Type: 1.0/100,000
(21/2,062,780)
Alpha: 0.8/ 100,000
(15/1,980,140)
Delta: 0.6/100,000
(45/7,586,488)
Omicron: 0.2/100,000
(11/7,077,682)
(2/3)
Our paper on the very low risk of death in children with #SARSCoV2 #omicron infection in England is now published in the Journal of Infection
I have already tweeted these results before, but here are 2 interesting hidden gems in the paper …🧵 (1/3)
👉 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163445323000373?dgcid=author
Unbelievable - we are now into the 4th year of the pandemic 👇
Latest research from @UKHSA analyses the effectiveness of the UK’s MenB vaccine since introduction into the infant immunisation program. Its findings reinforce why it’s so important for children to get their vaccinations as scheduled 👇
https://bit.ly/3ROrOXJ
#Meningitis
Claiming RCTs of masks are invalid because people don’t wear them properly is utterly upside down
This isn’t what invalidates RCTs - it’s what invalidates the lab studies
If your intervention falls apart when subjected to its end user, that’s what counts
Not mannequins
Three out of these four messages are correct at this stage of the #COVID19 pandemic 👇
The first RCT on #PIMSTS/#MISC compared methylprednisolone vs IVIG and found no difference in length of hospital stay.
Read the Swisspeds Recovery trial by Luregn Schlapbach & colleagues: http://bit.ly/3RDAQ9P #PedsICU
NEW: One of the largest and most comprehensive studies on masks to date found they do almost nothing to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.
The study was done by the Cochrane Review—a database long considered the Bible for evidence-based medicine.🧵
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/this-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks/
Quite Right @MAbsoud.
One CANNOT compare #COVID19 severity/deaths to other infections because:
1. No other infection affected a population with ZERO IMMUNITY like #SARSCoV2 did
2. We have NEVER TESTED so many people so much for any other infection like we did for #SARSCoV2👇
Oh wow..great interview
Cochrane review lead author re masks:
"Governments had bad advisors from the very beginning..They were convinced by non-randomised studies, flawed observational studies"
&Cochrane held up the publication of their initial review for 7 months until 11/2020?
R to @ShamezLadhani: 6/ To conclude, none of our national surveillance can distinguish incidental infections from severe #COVID19 even in hospitalised patients. Also, reporting ICU rates per population does not take into account differences in ICU rates for all conditions in different age groups
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5/ The latest ONS report states that the hospitalised % being treated primarily for COVID has been <40% since May22 - in Dec22, it was 36%
Kids are more likely have asymptomatic or mild #COVID19 than adults - so this % is likely even lower in kids
👉 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/hospitals