📍Over 100 children have died from #COVID19, or ~3 children a day, in the last 5 weeks—20 died last week alone (@AmerAcadPeds data). This is on par with pediatric age<15 annual cancer death rate! ➡️ We shouldn’t just “learn to live” with either. #vaccinate
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
2) We don’t accept pediatric cancer deaths. We don’t accept even 8 total infant pillow deaths. We should NOT accept #COVID19 deaths in kids either damnit!
3) “About 1,190 children under the age of 15 are expected to die from cancer in 2021.” — that translates to 23 kids cancer deaths a week. That’s on par with ~20 #COVID19 deaths per week reported by 45 of 50 states in last month (likely higher if all 50) cancer.org/cancer/cancer-…
4) let’s reframe kids deaths this way—pediatric cancers are the leading cause of death in the US past infancy. #COVID19 deaths in kids is now on par with annual kids cancer death rates! Let that sink in. Check your moral compass if you want kids to “learn to live with the virus”
5) Welp, guess @GovRonDeSantis doesn’t really care about kids.

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26 Sep
MISCALCULATION BY GOP—As an epidemiologist, I think Republicans might be killing off their voter base faster than they think. The #COVID19 death rate since June 30 in counties where Trump got >90% of the vote are 9.5x higher than where he got <10%—pretty strong. HT @charles_gaba Image
2) To be clear, as an epidemiologist, I present this because I am worried for all public health. There are plenty of people of both political parties dying. But clearly there is a strong geographic political skew. People need to vaccinate and mask, or else it will hurt us all. Image
3) This mass death trend in areas voting for authoritarians like Trump is also true in parts of Brazil 🇧🇷 that voted more of Bolsonaro. Not a coincidence conservatives in both US and Brazil are more often anti mask and anti vax.

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26 Sep
Poor school children in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. The #DeltaVariant has roared back, now worse than the first summer Delta wave. Why? @BorisJohnson doesn’t impose mask mandates in schools, and his JCVI panel has withheld vaccines for kids 12-15 until recently—only releasing when 💩 hit the fan. Image
2) UK parents are “sick of the lies” from @BorisJohnson’s govt and @sajidjavid’s horrible leadership.
3) Parts of England being hit so hard, it’s 4x the national rate.
Read 6 tweets
24 Sep
FRESH HELL—Anti-vaccine Facebook groups have a new message for their community members: ‘Don’t go to the emergency room, & get your loved ones out of ICU’, instead—they are promoting increasingly dangerous at-home #COVID19 treatments.

By @oneunderscore__
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
2) “Consumed by conspiracy theories claiming that doctors are preventing unvaccinated patients from receiving miracle cures or are even killing them on purpose, some people in anti-vaccine & pro-ivermectin FB groups are telling those with #COVID19 to stay away from hospitals”
3) “The messages represent an escalation in the mistrust of medical professionals in groups that have sprung up in recent months on social media platforms. And it’s something that some doctors say they’re seeing manifest in their hospitals as they have filled up”
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23 Sep
📍LET THIS SINK IN—When 8 infants die, 3 million pillows are immediately recalled. Nobody says, “But but but… We need to learn to live with pillows that suffocate babies!” ➡️Meanwhile, 480 kids have died of #COVID19–an astounding 20 died last week alone! nbcwashington.com/news/consumer/…
2) While kids die at a rate of 1 in 10,000 infected cases… that is quite high! Plus, it is 6-8 fold higher CFR recently during the #DeltaVariant wave than last 18 months before Delta! (Notice RED vs BLUE).

Figure by @DrWilliamKu
3) I’m an epidemiologist. I bring facts. Data on #COVID19 in kids shows it has surged astoundingly since last year. Now kids are 20-25% of all cases. downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20…
Read 9 tweets
23 Sep
⚠️Worrisome—Potential post-Covid hair dye allergies reported. Scientists at @imperialcollege are investigating how the virus could be reprogramming our immune system. People are experiencing new allergic reactions to hair dye after contracting #COVID19 🧵—
theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/9…
2) this is potentially real— The BBC reported that the reactions, including rashes and burns, have been recorded by salons in parts of the UK. bbc.co.uk/news/av/health…
3) This is not the first time a connection between this type of allergy and Covid-19 has been suggested. Last winter, rumours swept around the hairdressing community that clients had developed allergies to hair dye after having coronavirus.
Read 6 tweets
22 Sep
⚠️OY—@FoxNews’s Tucker Carlson is still pushing #ivermectin as a treatment for #COVID19 despite warnings from public health officials. ➡️Several dubious / potentially fake studies identified already (HT @GidMK), which led to several journal retractions…🧵
2) There is a very deep well of potentially fraudulent research on ivermectin and COVID, writes Australian epidemiologist @GidMK. He walks through all the data issues. It’s so long that there’s 3 parts to the ivermectin debunking.
gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-…
3) Notably, an influential study from Argentina has been used to argue that ivermectin prevents COVID 100% — but its inconsistencies have led experts to question if it could have actually happened as advertised, writes @stephaniemlee @kenbensinger
buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…
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