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10 Sep, 12 tweets, 8 min read
The #CovidUnknowns Vaccination in Children webinar is now on YouTube, so it's time to link up my live-tweets to video presentations.

Starting with @ParsnipsParsons on the rights of the child.
Followed by @russellviner on the keys issues in childhood vaccination for Covid-19.

"60-70% of children have asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection."

"Delta appears to be more severe in adults, but if anything it seems less severe in children."

Covid-19 & Children by @ShamezLadhani

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."

Part 2 - Transmission & Educational Settings:
Emma Duncan on post-covid conditions in children.

Even children who have not been infected have had poorer health-related Quality of Life outcomes from the pandemic.

Pros & Cons of childhood Covid-19 vaccination by @adamhfinn

"You can't do something without not doing something else."

High reactogenicity means disruption from children feeling unwell that could impact the flu, HPV and other vaccination programmes.

Valtyr Stefansson shared Iceland's successful teenage vaccination programme, with high turnouts and low negative consequences.

Vaccination unknowns by @StabellBenn.

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.

Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2 by @thecewagnerlab and @chadisaadroy

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.
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More from @zexpe

9 Sep
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..
So #VaccinePassports will be necessary for large gatherings and "sinners". How very appropriate for our puritanical government.
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9 Sep
Epic critique of pandemic-era science.

This thread is just a tiny extract…

🧵 1/9

tabletmag.com/sections/scien…
“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
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7 Sep
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. Image
Israel reported 200 per million. wired.com/story/the-cdc-…
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.
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