Thread by @DrEricDing

HIGHEST IN KIDS—newest French data this week shows #B117 is the most dominant & has the highest prevalence in kids ages 0-9. This matches data from 🇬🇧 (where B117 nearly completely dominant) showing highest #COVID19 incidence in kids. This also matches kids surge in 🇮🇹 & 🇮🇱. 🧵

2) Here is the newest UK data from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 showing the highest positivity of #COVID19 in kids for the first time (this wasn’t true in the past). This again matches warnings we see elsewhere in the world. Leaders of each country have to acknowledge this.

3) and my god, #B117 has now pretty much dominated half of France 🇫🇷.

4) We know #B117 is more contagious by 40-60%. Do we see it throughout France? YES!! Areas with higher B117 #SARSCoV2 proportion, higher the incidence of #COVID19.

5) there is definitely something going on with the #B117 variant (where it is fully dominant in 🇬🇧) and kids. This new weird pediatric trend has been now seen in Italy 🇮🇹 Israel 🇮🇱 Denmark 🇩🇰 and now France 🇫🇷 too. Italy’s leadership sounded the alarms recently about B117 & kids.

6) New studies indeed confirm that “kids are the drivers of transmission”. Asymptomatic kids carry just as much viral load as adults...

7) Kids are more often silent asymptomatic spreaders and much less likely detected too. Thus what we are finding for highest in kids is just tip of the iceberg.

8) Let’s flip it around... if a family has a lot of kids, are the adults more likely infected??? YES... and more kids in household, the higher the risk.

9) And don’t forget that #B117 is not only more contagious, new data from Denmark 🇩🇰 CDC shows it is also more severe. Danes have the best B117 data because they sequence everyone. Read this thread 🧵 and the table below.

10) I’m not anti kids in schools—rather I’m pro safe schools. And what is needed is not only masks but also adequate ventilation and air disinfection— the CDC just put out these critical school air quality safety protocols. Please read this thread 🧵