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Jun 4, 2021, 8 tweets

PHE frantically spinning the schools data as Delta cases rise EXPONENTIALLY driven by school age children and now moving into the older age groups, esp parent age groups.

publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2021/06/03/a-s…

Elsewhere

The data suggests otherwise.

Those traffic lights look pretty red to me.

Yep. It is a different PHE report

That is not a tiny uptick. And loosening restrictions, including stopping the mask mandate on 17/5/21, seems to be the driver

Yep. This is from PHE data.

Just one person’s story.

Here is @chrischirp more complete response

And a story of one school illustrating the likelihood of childhood cases being missed.

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