Thread by @JoannaTeglund

1.🇸🇪School children don't spread infection. We didn't close schools, because they didn't need to be closed.
—Swedish Minister of Education

109,983 children with confirmed #COVID19
140 with #PIMS_TS #MISC
12 children dead🕯️
2,171 schools with outbreaks

10-30% with #LongCovidKids

2. 🇸🇪Why Sweden doesn't close schools?

Three faces of Tegnell:

1. To Swedish media: Children don't spread the virus
2. To foreign media: Parents would stay at home and it's 20% of the workforce
3. Leaked emails: Children are good spreaders and we can reach herd immunity faster

3. Official version - the public lie - in Sweden:

School children don't spread infection. We didn't close schools, because they didn't need to be closed.
—Swedish Minister of Education Ekström

dn.se/nyheter/utbild…

4. Tegnell to foreign media:

“If children don’t go to school their parents need to stay at home and we know of economic calculations that have been given to us that then about 20% of the workforce disappears from the Swedish work market”
▶️42:40 min.

5. Sweden's state epidemiologist Tegnell suggested to his Finnish counterpart that keeping schools open might spread the virus faster and speed up the path towards herd immunity, according to released emails.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/1…

6. The grossly misleading report #COVID19 in schoolchildren, a comparison between 🇫🇮 and 🇸🇪" is used to incorrectly assert that "school openings were not an issue during the pandemic with little evidence of transmission of the virus among school children"
kebe-21648.medium.com/why-it-is-hard…

7. Ludvigsson, Swedish pediatrician accused of suppressing data on #CovidKids deaths in NEJM is cited worldwide in many documents on safe schools.
Damage done extends well beyond Sweden.
🧵👇

https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1367101599269588996

8. An access to the truth by a well informed electorate is a fundamental condition for democracy. People who defend democracy by revealing the truth about the pandemic in Sweden are harassed to such an extent that some of them had to leave Sweden.

https://twitter.com/KeithMEWAS/status/1367773199874850816

9. An association @covid19skola that collects and publishes statistics on #COVIDkids #LongCovidKids as there is no official statistics is harassed today in one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden @Aftonbladet
covid19-skola-och-barn.se

https://twitter.com/covid19skola/status/1379032092537987080

10. A general estimate that 10-30% of #COVIDkids survivors suffer from #LongCovidKids

is based on surveys, like data from @ONS (9,063 people surveyed)
17% 17-24 yo
15% 12-16 yo
13% 2-11 yo
but many asked people don't even know that #LongCovid existjpost.com/israel-news/po…

11.“This is not a virus you want to be infected with”.
The ongoing study in Bergen shows that more than half of those who have had #COVID19 suffers from long-term effects.
“It looks scary inside”
"Children and young people should avoid being infected"

https://twitter.com/JoannaTeglund/status/1373393856365002755

12. We have known for more than a year

that #COVID19 can cause severe long-term damage to the lungs, heart, brain and other organs – and that for some patients these complications may be permanent.
france24.com/en/20200402-fo…

https://twitter.com/JoannaTeglund/status/1375839093112848387

13. Experts are raising the alarm about a new virus variant that appears to be infecting school-age children and younger adults. The highly contagious #B117 is on the rise in Europe and more and more young people are being hospitalized as cases rise.

https://twitter.com/LongCovidKids/status/1367564094644097026

14. Addendum
In the fifth year of the pandemic, it has been definitively proven that SARS-CoV-2 can cause systemic infection, persist and replicate in the body, regardless of the severity of the infection - even in mild/asymptomatic cases. There is no cure

https://twitter.com/JoannaTeglund/status/1755335474866946074