Thread by @dgurdasani1

COVID-related myocarditis can be severe and tragically even fatal (unlike vaccine-related myocarditis which is typically rare and mild and hasn't cause any fatalities so far). Children do get seriously ill with COVID- here's a really heartbreaking story.

thesun.co.uk/news/16308491/…

I'm shocked at how long it's taken to decide to vaccinate adolescents & provide them access to vaccines in England. Given the mass infection children are being subjected to due to lack of mitigations in schools, this is urgent. Why isn't the govt taking protecting kids seriously?

These deaths in children are preventable. Why on earth aren't we preventing them? Yes, children don't die as often as adults, but why would we let *any* children die, when protecting them involves such basic measures (vaccines, mitigations) that so many other countries have done?

I don't understand how we became a country where children dying of a preventable disease that we have vaccines against became ok. Where is the moral compass of govt, and JCVI who delayed this for so long. I'm shocked and outraged. Every day.

I think everyday of parents who lose their children to COVID-19, given vaccines have been available in other countries since May- I sometimes wonder if they think about how their children may be alive if they just lived in another country.

Apologies for linking to the Sun article earlier- I didn't realise this was being shared by other news media as well. Here it is from the BBC, for those who would prefer not to share the Sun piece:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…