With no

#vax4kids
#MasksInSchool
T&T billions supporting in-school contact tracing
HEPA
Quarantine of those taking PCRs
OR of households with +ves
Updates on Delta symptoms
Reductions in class sizes

How can CV/CEV households keep safe exposed by schools?

We need #SAFESCHOOLS
Families are in impossible situations.

We don't want to withdraw our kids and deny them formal education. We want our human rights to be conserved #educationANDlives.

#RemoteEd - extended to those isolating denied to those with households at risk.

What choices do we have?
If we take any days off we face fines, prosecutions and social services. Blunt tools aimed at those taking term-time holidays or school refusers.

Last school year, families had to battle for lives.

Even when attendance *wasn't* compulsory our members were receiving threats.
Extraordinary attitudes have existed even when attendance targets weren't in force. This experience was far from an isolated incident.

Lives not valued.

Once attendance targets were restored even previously supportive schools were often no longer.

This next school year brings fresh challenges:

No mitigations.
Children next to those from Covid-positive households.
Incorrect symptoms mean that appropriate testing won't occur.
Contact tracing, when kids don't have details for those they were with, grossly irresponsible.
Vaccines are being used against us.

Yes, they increase protection, but there is little data for Vulnerable groups. Plus with increasing vaccine escape even those who had fair protection will be less protected. Immunocompromised / immunosuppressed will always be at risk with 📈.
Withdrawal or not? that is the question.

Not all families can support their children to learn at home. Disabled families have increased disadvantages but facing a threat to life what can they do.

Keeping kids in feels somewhat like living with a gun to your head. MH suffers.
Kids also carry the impossible mental health burden of keeping themselves & their families safe.

Often the only ones wearing a mask they cannot reasonably protect themselves in such circumstances.

They risk themselves / become a vector transmitting to their CV/CEV household.
Withdrawal must not be the only option to those with lives at risk. We do not choose HomeEd.

Our children must not lose access to:

Formal education
Friends/Community
Formal exams GCSEs & A Levels.

We need safe choices (each family different):

#SafeSchools
#RemoteEd available

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More from @cv_cev

25 Aug
🧵A letter, signed by Prof Jennifer Harries OBE, has informed parents of Clinically Extremely Vulnerable children that they are not CEV anymore.

Even being identified as needing a vaccine isn't a reason to shield.

NB/ Many (12-15) have still not received a first dose yet. 1/
Seeking to reassure parents
"Recent clinical studies have shown that children & young people are at very low risk of serious illness if they catch the virus. We are pleased to let you know that your child is therefore no longer considered to be clinically extremely vulnerable" 2/
...before the big blow...

"It is important that your child continues to attend their school or other educational settings."

* With a caveat that actually maybe your child is still CEV and "will still have to isolate or reduce their social contact".

3/
Read 9 tweets
21 Jul
There is evidence LEA's are planning to withdraw school places from Vulnerable families (again).

Some schools had been supportive.

Others had allowed people to remain On-Roll but not given resources.

Whilst many families were threatened with fines/prosecution/child services.
Education is a HUMAN right.

Life is a HUMAN right.

These are continuing to remain in conflict *for ALL vulnerable CV/CEV families* as we are generating further vaccine escape.

That is *why* CV & CEV will be offered boosters in the Autumn.

2/
Children in exam years will lose their rights to vital qualifications.

This is what will happen if your child stays at home to learn next year:

3/
Read 15 tweets
19 Jul
Nadhim Zahawi announced:

"The JCVI recommends vaccines for children 12-15 who have severe neurodisabilities, Down's Syndrome immunosuppression and profound or multiple learning disabilities."

1/
"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.
3/
Read 4 tweets
19 Jul
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/
Read 7 tweets
15 Jul
Shocking news...

Bubbles and school contact tracing gone on Monday.

"..they will no longer be responsible for identifying Covid contacts with this responsibility being passed to the NHS Test and Trace."

tes.com/news/covid-con…
It is the schools discretion to inform
parents of a +ve & adds that they should take account factors such as "known vulnerability".

Unclear if a vulnerability is only for children in their care. Schools have limited understanding of medical issues & even less so for 3rd parties.
Plus, there is the issue of vaccination and immunity.

Just because someone has had 💉💉 it doesn't mean they are protected. In some cases Vulnerable people themselves might not even know that.

All of the above puts lives at significantly increased risk...
Read 6 tweets
20 Jun
Lateral flow tests can be have a very faint line.

* This test is positive *
(Confirmed by PCR)
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.
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