"The JCVI recommends vaccines for children 12-15 who have severe neurodisabilities, Down's Syndrome immunosuppression and profound or multiple learning disabilities."
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"The JCVI advice also recommends offering the vaccine to children and young people aged 12-17 who live with someone who is immunosuppressed."
2/
Whilst this is a start and we welcome the offering of vaccines to these children to protect incredibly vulnerable families, we feel this does not go far enough.
CV/CEV households all need #vax4kids urgently. We don't understand the risks posed by all of these vulnerabilities.
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However, even that does not go far enough when other first world countries are offering healthy children 12-15 these vaccines.
The US alone has vaccinated over 6 million children.
@LongCovidKids a risk for all. Making all children (and adults more vulnerable).
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CV/CEV families are being exposed to a deadly virus:
via public transport
via workplaces
via supermarkets (no priority slots)
via unsafe schools
1/
At Home
They should only meet with double vax outside or should be responsible for ventilation if they meet inside. All of their visitors should test with a Lateral Flow first.
They can't meet their own kids any more, of course, who will be unvax.
2/
In the Workplace
There will be no social distancing but they don't need to work from home.
Employers are now responsible for their safety.
Their colleagues / clients won't take Lateral Flows.
They can to take their employer to court.(They may need an Eng / Epidemiology PhD)
3/
This is a common phenomenon with all lateral flow testing. There is no amplification of the sample and so you are only testing what you have - if there isn't much there the line will be faint. You see the same with pregnancy tests (also lateral flow).
They use immobilised antibodies and markers that bind to the antigens on the reservoir pad and then migrate along the test. As they move across binding reagents will bind the target to the test line. The larger the sample of whatever you are testing for the stronger the line.
1/ When schools returned in 09/2020 the focus was on 'Hands' and surfaces.
There was no desire by @GOVUK to implement 'Face'masks.
And no extra 'Space' available,
Nightingale schools dismissed.
2/ "All children must be in school." we were told "There is little evidence of Covid transmission in school.".
* They were right because in the Summer term very few children had returned for face to face teaching and children spent lots of time outside and in tiny bubbles.
3/ Cases started to rise rapidly in children.
A fire break at halfterm dismissed. Schools went back and cases continued to accelerate upwards.
So in early November we partially added 'Face'masks to the equation.
But, ONLY
in communal areas,
in Secondary
AND
optionally.