As I suspected Children aged 12 to 15 may not get Covid jab by half-term in England due to concerns about high infection rates.

Also, I suspect, about uncertainty as to who has had it recently and who has not given the incoherent mitigation (not) policy theguardian.com/education/2021…
“With the half-term break less than three weeks away, some headteachers said they were still waiting to be given a date for their vaccination sessions, while others have complained about not enough vaccinators turning up to meet demand.”
“Further delays are building, because pupils who test positive for coronavirus have to wait 28 days before they can receive the Covid vaccination and need to be offered a later appointment.”

Now just imagine if they’d got on with vaccinating kids in the summer hols
Especially if they had introduced effective mitigation measures to bring rates down?

How many kids hospitalised and dying in late August
/ September could have been spared?

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @fascinatorfun

7 Oct
Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic

Yet Lord Bethell, then health minister, told parliament at the time: “It was a trial run for a flu pandemic, not of the kind that Covid produced”.

This was NOT TRUE.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
He went on to say that “the demands on PPE, the health sector and the care sector were more profound than the flu pandemic trials prepared us for.”

The Coronavirus Pandemic exercise, Operation Alice, reported on 15th Feb 2016.

documentcloud.org/documents/2108…
And the Government tried to hide it last August saying it could “lead to loss of public confidence in the government’s and the NHS’ Covid-19 response … based on misinterpretation of the report.”

Yes. Well. Loss of confidence is right.
Read 4 tweets
7 Oct
Private hospitals treated only eight Covid patients a day during the pandemic and performed fewer NHS-funded operations despite a lucrative deal with the Government…costing undisclosed £billions. Image
The Centre for Health and Public Interest said in a report an arrangement believed to cost £400-million A MONTH from March 2020 block-booked the entire capacity of all 7,956 beds in England’s 187 private hospitals.

So why were we spending ££££ on (unused) Nightingale Hospitals?
On 39% of days between March 2020 and March this year, private hospitals treated NO ‼️ Covid patients at all and on a further 20% of days they cared for only ONE ‼️person.

Overall, they provided only 3,000 of the 3.6m Covid bed days in those 13 months – just 0.08% of the total.
Read 4 tweets
7 Oct
Superb from ⁦@RobDotHutton

“Come with me on a journey to a happier place. A magical world that’s as close as your imagination. Join me, if you can, in Borisland.

Read every satirical lyrical word.
thecritic.co.uk/we-as-a-people…
“The homes of Borisland are built without planning fights, arranged around village greens, each with their own maypole. The children of Borisland are cheeky scamps, scrumping apples until they’re caught by the village bobby and sent on their way with a gentle clip around the ear”
“In Borisland, your wife and your mistress help each other out with the babysitting.”
Read 4 tweets
7 Oct
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 child 🧒 🏥 cases still rising ⬆️⬆️⬆️

All ages 0-17…but look at 12-17. 5 times the Feb peak

5-11 yr olds 3 times the Feb peak.

This caught me on the hop as I thought child cases and hospitalisations were falling in Scotland.
Look at the last 4 weeks on this chart.

Let’s hope this week’s data shows a sharp drop.

Their school vaccination programme is more advanced than 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Image
Here’s the data provided showing the data since March. Quite stark

But so is that drop to a still high 50 in the last week. Maybe that is vaccine effect?

If so it points strongly towards suggesting we should have vaccinated in the summer hols…& ENGLAND needing to catch up.
Read 4 tweets
6 Oct
⚰️🧒🦠 15 Covid deaths children in ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 alone in just under 5 weeks, 24 August - 26 September @BinitaKane

3 a week.
91 child Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic in the U.K. as a whole

Assuming the deaths started in April that would amount to an average of c.5 deaths A MONTH for the whole of the U.K.

Now c 3 A WEEK in England alone.

What is going on do you think @BinitaKane ?
Read 9 tweets
6 Oct
More than 100 billionaires kept money hidden in offshore accounts

It helps to understand what “offshore accounts” means in this context.

And then we can look at examples about why people might use them

Because £/$ are hidden by the super rich this way washingtonpost.com/business/inter…
1/. What is an offshore system?

Financial devices that offer privacy, but also opportunities to hide assets from
Authorities
Creditors
Claimants
Public Scrutiny
2/ why is it called “offshore finance?

The countries offering this system were often coastal locations or islands. But that is not true or necessary now. The term “offshore” signifies anywhere that is not a customer’s residence.
Read 15 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(