Thread by @DrEricDing

Outbreak of 69 #COVID19 cases in 2 schools, plus 20 at daycare centers in one Danish city—all #B117. “Something going on with the infection of [🇬🇧 variant] #B117 among children that we have not seen with the old coronavirus” says an epidemiologist. 🧵
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2) Two schools and eight daycare institutions in the central Jutland city of Kolding will remain closed until Friday following coronavirus outbreaks that experts claim underline the devastating potential of the British variant of COVID-19.

3) Speaking to DR, Viggo Andreasen, an professor at Roskilde University who is swiftly becoming favorite 🇩🇰 epidemiologist, questions whether there is “something going on with the infection of #B117 among children that we have not seen with the old coronavirus”.

4) “If we see more examples, then we must ask ourselves whether it is too risky to open schools to the little ones. This means there is a good risk that infection chains will run for quite some time before we discover them. probably also some parents who have become infected.”

5) Indeed, something did happen recently in Austria and Italy and Israel as well in children.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1362558582198255617

6) This divergence in children also seen in the UK, despite general lockdown. After winter break, positivity in 5-9 year olds higher vs adults after primary partially schools reopening. This wasn’t seen last year at all.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1360289161291390983

7) Similar #B117 outbreak in an Italian village. 60% of cases in young kids.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1357599530296958982

8) Update—the city council of the Danish city of Kolding (site of the school outbreaks above) is now considering shutting down all schools says @TazorNissen.

https://twitter.com/tazornissen/status/1362725792053100545

9) UK 🇬🇧 positivity trends in kids are due to school reopenings says @dgurdasani1

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1360184562672955395

10) Also—Israel is seeing sharp rise in the number of children and teens getting #COVID19, where #B117 rising.

>50,000 children have been diagnosed with #COVID19 since start of Jan, many more than Israel saw in any month during the first or second waves. m.jpost.com/health-science…

11) “We got a letter from the Israeli Association of Pediatrics that says they are very worried about the rate of disease in younger students,” Health Minister Edelstein said. “This is something we did not witness in previous waves of corona.”

—sound familiar to above?

12) Instead of around 29% of new cases coming from children and teens, as in the second wave, now they are around 40% of cases, Public Health Services head Sharon Alroy-Preis said in the Knesset on Monday. The greatest spike was in children between ages of **6 and 9** (familiar?)

13) “according to Cyrille Cohen, head of Bar-Ilan University’s immunotherapy laboratory, the (pediatric case) numbers seem to be rising. one hypothesis is that it is tied to the British 🇬🇧 mutation #B117, which has spread rapidly across Israel.”

14) I’ve alluded to this trend in kids 0-9 before over a month ago in the #B117 data... while kids overall lower risk than adults, #B117 has yielded greater increase in attack rate in kids 0-9 than in those over age 10, compared to the older common strain.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1347745261670584321