Thread by @fascinatorfun

🧒 🏥 942 children hospitalised with Covid in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English hospitals alone in September.

Nearly 1000 children.

https://twitter.com/tigressellie/status/1444052503943856134

How many of them are 12 years and over who WOULD have been able to be vaccinated from 4th June when the MHRA authorised the Pfizer vaccine for 12 year olds and up. But who were not authorised by the JVCI (1 shot) until 4th August (16-17 yr olds) and 4th Sept (12-15yr olds) ?

Were those child hospitalisations taken into account by JVCI or only ICU admissions @chrischirp @dgurdasani ?

How many child hospitalisations since 4th June when MHRA authorised Pfizer for 12-15 yr olds? (16-17 yr olds authorised from the outset by MHRA) @TigressEllie ?

Just looking at deaths. These data goes from 10yr up so might include one 10-11 yr old where vaccine not authorised at all.

But 15 x 15-19 yr olds have died in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 alone since 1st July 2021

Unclear how many 18-19 yr olds

Were these taken into account by the JVCI @chrischirp ?

Data taken from this resource ilpandacentrostudio.it/uk.html

🙏 @TigressEllie and @Antonio_Caramia

I can see that it would have been impossible to vaccinate those under 12 before 4th June and realistically those hospitalised in June probably could not have been vaccinated in time.

But by vaccinating those 12 yrs and over, you diminish prevalence overall and thus reduce risks of infection, thus hospitalisation and death to those younger as well as those in the authorised age groups.

Whilst we may not be able to get more granular data by each individual year for hospitalisations, ICUs and deaths including for PIMSs, surely the JVCI must have done so.

And it is reasonable to ask them to disclose those granular data which surely must have informed decisions?

If not, then I think transparency as to why not should be explained.