@dgurdasani1, you are a legend 👏!

PLEASE please listen to this from 07.20-40.30.
You will not regret it.

It clearly demonstrates the dangers of those without any CLINICAL knowledge & expertise being able to make crucial decisions that effect so many lives.
1/15 a thread.
Questions for the MODELLERS & MPs...

Have you actually seen a child poorly w/ #COVID19? It can be extremely frightening for both child & parents.

Have you seen/spoken to the parents of any children suffering w/ #LongCovid?
Why not listen to what parents & Drs are saying? 2/
#COVID19 is a multi-system disease with w/ many negative outcomes other than hospitalisation or death.

IT IS NOT FLU!

#COVID19 IS NOT FLU!

#LongCovid in both adults & children can be v debilitating & there’s currently v little knowledge about the long term prognosis. 3/.
Even using the most optimistic interpretation of “the data”, if 10-20% of those w/ #COVID19 get #LongCovid, many 1000s of children will have & many more will get #LongCovid.

How can any civilised society say that is ok?
I for one, don’t want ANY CHILD to suffer like that. 4/
#COVIDisAirborne - experts & SO MANY DRS have been literally shouting in every way possible that EFFECTIVE MITIGATION MUST INCLUDE improved #Ventilation, #Masks 😷for all but the very young & ⬇️close contact w/ others INDOORS.

Hand washing & surface cleaning is NOT ENOUGH!
5/
As @dgurdasani1 rightly points out - LARGE BUBBLES of up to 300 pupils (plus their siblings & parents) are COMPLETE NONSENSE....they are not BUBBLES at all!

@educationgovuk’s “SYSTEM OF CONTROLS” is utterly WOEFUL.

Don’t take my word for it, read it.
@StephenNolan
6/
Next week is half term across the UK.
THERE IS NOT A MOMENT TO LOSE!

All but the youngest children CAN #WearAMask INDOORS IN SCHOOL!
They really can. Look across Europe & the rest of the world.

ALL STAFF should wear #MasksIndoors😷in ALL AREAS.
7/
Use #blendedlearning, rotas, extra empty spaces to ⬇️class sizes & create #SafeSpacesToLearn.

Increase staffing levels by the widespread use of #SupplyTeachers.

Ensure EVERY CHILD has digital access with #laptops & adequate #Wifi. 8/
Read all the clear, pragmatic & safe advice from @IndependentSage @ReicherStephen on the phased return to full opening & the @NEU’s EDUCATION RECOVERY PLAN.

In the face of highly transmissible #CovidVariants this is NOT the moment for complacency or recklessness. 9/
If @GavinWilliamson, @educationgovuk & @BorisJohnson allow (& actively encourage) the FULL opening of all schools & #earlyyears settings after half term WITHOUT EFFECTIVE MITIGATION for an #AIRBORNE 🦠, the outcome is entirely predictable. 10/
Transmission IN SCHOOLS will ⬆️again, more children & staff will catch/spread #coronavirus, & more individuals, families ( AND communities) will suffer... AGAIN.

PEOPLE spread #coronavirus....We all agree on that.

#COVIDisAirborne - UK leaders, & others, MUST CATCH UP!
11/
MODELLING can only tell us so much.
In the absence of the CLINICAL picture & real HUMAN stories it is a 1-dimensional way of assessing RISK.

Risk of hospitalisation & death are obviously v important.
But risk of long term MORBIDITY & loss of QOL MUST be factored in too.
12/
For those at the back-

#COVID19 IS NOT FLU.

Acute #COVID can be very frightening & serious in both adults & children. It can be fatal.

10-20% of Adults AND children get #LongCovid.

#COVIDisAirborne - EFFECTIVE MITIGATION is needed URGENTLY in ALL INDOOR SETTINGS NOW. 13/
Thank you @dgurdasani1 for your incredible expertise & ongoing refusal to be silenced.

And thank you @StephenNolan for a great discussion & for taking the concerns of so many of us seriously...I hope you got some sleep😉!

PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE THIS VITAL INFORMATION! 14/

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14 Feb
1/14 Morning @SophyRidgeSky, just watched the interviews w/ @DominicRaab @annelongfield @timspector & @bphillipsonMP re #schoolsreopening fully on 8th Mar.

Discussions focused on dates, primary vs secondary, catch up plans, mental health concerns, vulnerable children....
2/But NOT A SINGLE MENTION OF #coronavirus MITIGATION INSIDE SCHOOLS!

Has the MSM been banned from mentioning mitigation measures?
Are British children/teaching staff different to those across the world?
Do they have SPECIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS?
3/NO FIGURES on how many children get #COVID19?
NO MENTION of how many become seriously ill, are hospitalised or die?
Absolutely NO WORD about the 1 in 7 or 8 children who get #LongCovid!
NO ADVICE for parents of children w/ diseases like Diabetes, severe Asthma etc.
Read 14 tweets
11 Feb
#Tory rhetoric on healthcare models continues.
Suggesting that countries who have handled #COVID19 well have done so because of a diff healthcare MODEL rather than acknowledging that multiple failures of UK pandemic management STRATEGY & POLICY is the main cause, is dishonest.
Countries like Taiwan, NZ, Australia, Vietnam...have done well because they didn’t treat #Covid like “flu” & took it seriously from Day 1.
Tight, early border controls, testing,tracing, universal mask wearing etc.
It’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
A “restructuring of the #NHS right now is a blatant attempt to “cover their tracks” before the inevitable inquiry.
They take us for fools if they think we can’t see exactly what’s driving this mis-timed plan.
Change is definitely needed but NOT RIGHT NOW!
@MattHancock
Read 4 tweets
27 Jan
Dear @annelongfield,
I read this document with trepidation.
However I am hugely relieved that finally there is acknowledgment that “there is a problem”.
Thank you!
The most important step that can be taken now from a HEALTH PERSPECTIVE is accepting that #COVIDisAirborne. 1/4
Children (& staff) could wash their hands 100x a day & sit in lines facing forwards thinking this will PREVENT #Coronavirus transmission. It won’t.
It will REDUCE transmission but the virus is in the air so ALL @educationgovuk safety measures need to updated accordingly. 2/4
If you could urgently press upon those able to effect change, the HUGE significance of this simple fact, we would actually be able to start to #MakeSchoolSafe. #EarlyYears settings & staff must NOT be excluded. 3/4
Read 5 tweets
27 Jan
And pressure for the NEXT BIG MISTAKE is building already.
MPs who fought tooth & nail to resist #lockdown /restrictions before #Christmas2020 are now actively working w/ a pressure group wanting FULL REOPENING of PRIMARY SCHOOLS WITHOUT MITIGATION for an #airborne virus. 1/5
#UsForThem have influenced Gvmt policy already, w/ dangerous consequences.
They are about to do it again, w/ the FULL BACKING of 12 MPs, some high profile ⬇️. Based on a study that was completed before the #covidvariant took hold, and in a different season no less! 2/
If #earlyyears settings remain open & primary schools fully open w/ such high disease prevalence (& more), & NO attention to #VENTILATION, class sizes, mask use.....there will be 1000s more predictable, avoidable & totally unnecessary deaths in the next few months. 3/
Read 5 tweets
26 Jan
1/4 I don’t claim to be an expert.
I’m not a scientist, virologist or epidemiologist.
But I have a scientific brain & like to understand “things”.
I’m told the plan to FULLY reopen Primary Schools SOON, WITHOUT ANY INCREASED MITIGATION MEASURES is based on this study below ⬇️.
2/The thing that JUMPS OUT @ me when assessing the results is that the study was done between June-Nov 20!
Schools were barely open in June/July, closed in Aug & opened again in Sept.
How can a study that included the school summer holidays be used to justify FULL OPENING NOW?
3/ Secondly, the study was over summer months...
We know that 1) we can easily spend more time outdoors in warmer weather, & 2) the virus appears to “like” warmer weather less.
Thirdly we now have a more transmissible UK #covidvariant &
SA+Brazilian ones too.
Read 5 tweets
26 Jan
1/11 🧵 Just watched @BBCPolitics in utter dismay!

Waiting/hoping for SOMEONE to mention #VENTILATION or kids wearing #MasksInClassrooms, using EXTRA spaces to create #SafeSpacesToLearn...etc
Have all commentators been forbidden to mention these options, have they been gagged?
2/ If this ⬇️ is SAGE’s own assessment in Dec20.
3/ And we think this ⬇️ regarding risk dependent on location, time, masks etc.
Read 11 tweets

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