Part 1 - Infection:
"Seroprevalence studies in children show them being infected as much as adults, but more asymptomatic, producing higher levels of antibodies than adults that persist for longer."
Natural immunity is stronger and more long lasting. Some vaccines have non-specific effects that may reduce or even increase the risk of other infections. These are unknown at present for the new Covid-19 vaccines.
Modelling shows we can make a much bigger impact on the pandemic through rapid & equitable global vaccine distribution to protect those at risk.
Rustom Antia:
HCoV primary infections are most common in children, boosting adult immunity with secondary infections.
What if primary HCoV infections, e.g. OC43, occurred in adults?
Epidemic in adults lasts 3 years, then becomes endemic in under 10s.
Peter Doshi concluded with the issue of the data that we can't see. Reports that are not published, and even side-effects that go unreported or take a long time to be published.
Vaccine passports will achieve nothing other than furthering the erosion of the liberties that define Western Civilisation. These liberties should not be so readily cast aside. Even talk of “optional” things should make liberals shudder.
It's so hypocritical that the talk was of no desire for domestic #VaccinePassports and then the moment the tool necessary to implement them arrives (for a different purpose, international access), they immediately become policy. Give politicians a hammer..
“The pandemic led seemingly overnight to a scary new form of scientific universalism. Everyone did COVID-19 science or commented on it. By August 2021, 330,000 scientific papers were published on COVID-19, involving roughly a million different authors.”
2/6
“An analysis showed that scientists from every single one of the 174 disciplines that comprise what we know as science has published on COVID-19. By the end of 2020, only automobile engineering didn’t have scientists publishing on COVID-19.”
3/6
I actually think they are controversially low. The latest US figures for 16/17 yo males are 72 per million and as they get more data on the 12-15 yos I’d expect that group to increase too as per trend with age shown so far. Other countries have seen numbers exceeding 100.
Ontario is reporting 164 per million in 18-24 yos and presumably as coverage increases in younger groups they will be similarly high. Worryingly, they even see 50 per million from 1st doses.