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This tweet doesn’t acknowledge the enormous public health benefits of education or the public health trade-offs of losing access to education. Some of which I, along w/esteemed colleagues, highlight in this op-ed. We must consider #totalharms.

bostonglobe.com/2021/07/10/opi…
Education improves health and is associated with lower mortality. Education is crucial for low-income and communities of color to mitigate disparities related to racism and socioeconomic disadvantage.
This past year confirms the downsides of school loss, especially for the economically disadvantaged and Black and Latinx students. Special needs students and families are also hard-hit when in-person schooling is lost.
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1, One year ago today the Italian government made a decision to reject the pandemic preparedness plans that had been long established and began a quarantine of an entire population Lombardy. The @WHO had advised against this in October 2019 who.int/influenza/publ…
2, This set in motion a response to the Coronavirus pandemic that was to be copied by most of the world within the following month.

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3, Today, a year on, many populations are still are in lockdown and the collateral damages are only just beginning to be seen. collateralglobal.org #CGResearch
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Aquí están los "Doce Principios olvidados sobre salud pública", de @MartinKulldorff traducidos por @CristianPoow.
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#1 La Salud Pública trata sobre TODOS los resultados, no únicamente una enfermedad como COVID19. Es importante también considerar los daños colaterales de las medidas de salud pública.

#totalharms
collateralglobal.org
#2 La Salud Pública trata sobre el largo plazo más que el corto plazo. Los confinamientos en primavera por COVID19 simplemente atrasaron y pospusieron la pandemia hasta el otoño.

thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health

#1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease like #COVID19. It is important to also consider harms from public health measures. #totalharms
collateralglobal.org @collateralglbl
#2 Public health is about the long term rather than the short term. Spring #COVID19 #lockdowns simply delayed and postponed the pandemic to the fall.
thelancet.com/journals/lance… @JohanGiesecke
#3 Public health is about everyone. It should not be used to shift the burden of disease from the affluent to the less affluent, as the #COVID19 #lockdowns have done.
torontosun.com/opinion/column…
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