2) Is this pediatric surge in #COVID19 a statistical fluke? No. If we just look at the change from late Feb to first week of March, we still see this consistent surge in kids.
Also, @DavidSteadson notes, while many schools were open, high school grades 10-12 closed in person.
3) And where is the proof that #B117 is surging fast in Sweden 🇸🇪? Here on Swedish Public Health Authority’s website. Circled is Stockholm’s 53% #B117 proportion found in week 8 of 2021. Another region has 60%.
4) This matches data in UK... where #B117 is near complete dominant, and where kids now hold the highest positivity of all age groups in Feb, which was not previously the case.
8) A few of us first noticed some usual trends in late December / early January in the prelim U.K. data. But it was not fully conclusive back then. But it hinted something...
9) Which then was further corroborated in a few days later January 8th. Notably there was a somewhat larger relative % increase in attack rates in kids 0-9 compared to the older wild type (common) variants, than % increase in those older.
11) There was a serious problem also with under diagnosis in kids too. This has exacerbated tracking kids transmission last year (hence a lot of early studies found “no effect of schools last year”). But they where wrong, says @dgurdasani1 —which the latest data now proves more.
12) Indeed, studies after studies show kids are well known drivers of transmission. And hence kids all need to mask in school (even if most teachers are soon vaccinated in the US).
14) And then there is the hard to dispute clear cut data from Quebec which shows cases in students and teachers rising faster than general population... and then plummeting over winter holidays, then resurging once reopened again.
15) I’ll leave this figure here on relative change in #COVID19 cases in Quebec since mid January. One age group clearly stands out.
16) many reports of surges in pediatric cases in Israel 🇮🇱 despite many vaccinated. “Infection in children & school reopenings are a central concern—Children represent a larger proportion of infections than earlier in the pandemic” presumably due to #B117google.com/amp/s/www.time…
17) To be clear, I’m pro *safe* school reopenings. And it is possible with good ventilation and air exchange. Here are the latest CDC school air quality guidance for #COVID19 risk.
Concerning—CDC now says that 42 states are seeing rising rates of #COVID19 again—with levels high or very high in 35 states (and rising). COVID wastewater levels have already surpassed last summer’s peak and climbing fast. #CovidIsNotOver cdc.gov/forecast-outbr…
2) Substantial 28% increase in one week. Question is how high it will go. It’s a new variant (mostly KP2 and KP3 and JN1), which are evasive against past infection and past vaccines.
A girl using cover name JANE DOE testified under oath at Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial that she was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 years old. Pass it on.
Trump’s name appears 7 times in Epstein’s latest files. They regularly called each other according to phone logs. Trump says Epstein is a “terrific guy”. And he traveled on flights, according to logs, to Epstein’s island multiple times.
3) THIS STUFF IS NEW—not old Epstein-Trump info. New information regarding Epstein's child trafficking activities was released 7/2/24. Documents from 2016 are now out of date and do not show the depth of Trump's dealings with Epstein... READ MORE:
Reminder—Trump had expressed executing people on many occasions while President, according to his own Attorney General. Now the Supreme Court has green lit any official act with full presidential immunity. Germany did the same in 1933. It turned out great.
2) If we ignore history, we are bound to repeat it. How Germany became Nazi Germany in 1933….
📍 The New York Times Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid
📌“Example of ‘science opinion’ run amok in the [NY Times] is a piece… by Zeynep Tufekci, a commentator with no training in biological science or epidemiology… ➡️Tufekci plays into the hands of the anti-science politicians who now seek vengeance on the flimsiest of grounds.”
2) “Tufekci also adds to the ongoing pile-on about whether the directive to maintain a distance of six feet from others was needed. Although the precise distance was indeed somewhat arbitrary, there was no possibility of obtaining hard data in the relevant time frame. The six-foot distance was a reasonable assumption based on public health history, and the practice of social distancing for other respiratory pathogens, particularly those spread by droplets. It was also adopted in multiple other countries, for the same reasons.”
3) “The problem here isn’t that Tufekci is questioning the evidentiary basis of the six-foot rule—science and public health cannot progress if we don’t evaluate the results of our work. But that progress is more effective when grounded in good-faith inquiry, rather than the kinds of attacks Tufekci levels against government scientists for doing their best in desperate circumstances. This only serves to bolster the forces who seek to destroy the US public health infrastructure, not make it better.
Tufekci also leaves the impression that she alone realized SARS-CoV-2 was airborne early on. In fact, the debate about transmission was fast and furious within the scientific community at that time”
⚠️Whooping cough has smashed all records in UK🇬🇧 with barely any serious govt actions. These are NEW CASES PER WEEK, not cumulative. Each week smashing previous. Other countries rising too amid anti-vax. Pertussis is also airborne!
3) Whooping cough is also extremely contagious. For up to 3 weeks. With UK govt advising staying home for 3 full weeks if no antibiotic treatment. How many people being told that and doing that?