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It is hard to see how publishing the report and acting to reduce Inequalities could stoke racial tensions

It's easy to see how withholding such a report could stoke racial tendencies.

Openness, accountability, sunlight is the best disinfectant?

If the report showed no Inequalities, they would release it.

So we can deduce it shows Inequalities.

Withholding a report documenting inequalities is a very bad look.
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Thanks for alerting me to this, Brian!



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I've written a lot about this issue previously (sadly on ganfyd.org, which is now defunct).

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The background is that any "person" with parental responsibility (and legally a local authority is such a "person" for some children) can consent to medical treatment on behalf of a child. Until some time ago, only one such person's consent was required.
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 We should soon understand this better. What the virologist was saying was informed opinion. But…

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 …there's little evidence that children are infectious. The S Australia paper found little evidence of transmission via children.

The Charité hospital found children were as likely as adults to be infected, and had similar viral loads, but remained relatively well.
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 The Charité paper concluded that children might be as infectious as adults.

Certainly, with flu, they are. They produce copious quantities of virus - more, and for longer than adults. But Covid-19 is not flu…
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It's not really R0 now.

R0 is the reproduction number (the average number of people infected by each case when 0% of the population is immune to the infection. The 0 (which should be subscript) is the %ge of the popn which is immune.
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But R0 also implies the normal operation of society. With Covid-19, when people were behaving normally, the R0 was somewhere around 4, but probably with considerable variance: some cases were infectious but with no/minimal symptoms, so they infected more people…
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… Whereas others got too ill to go out, so infected fewer people.

The R value is a function of the virus, and of behaviour. It will be higher (when there's fomite transmission) in hand-shaking cultures, for example.
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