BREAKING—Pfizer and BioNTech have requested the FDA to authorize emergency use of its #COVID19 vaccine for children ages 5-11. FDA meeting scheduled on Oct. 26 to consider it. A ruling is expected between Halloween and Thanksgiving. #vaccinate
nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/…
2) Pfizer has proposed giving children one-third of the adult dosage. That might require adding more diluent to each injection or using a different vial or syringe. The company was expected to describe the method it intended to use in its submission to the FDA.
3) A pediatric dose will also most likely require new labeling, with special codes that would allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track specific lots in case of reports of serious side effects.
4) the #Deltavariant drove nearly 30,000 kids to hospitals in August. According to @AmerAcadPeds, nearly 5.9 million Americans younger than 18 have been infected with the coronavirus. Of the roughly 500 Americans under 18 who have died, about 125 were children ages 5 to 11.
5) “It really bothers me when people say kids don’t die of Covid,” said Dr. Grace Lee, an associate chief medical officer at Stanford Children’s Health who also leads a key advisory committee to the C.D.C. “They die of Covid. It’s heartbreaking.”

I agree.
6) Here is the earlier report on the new data in kids.
7) here is the likely regimen for the kids 5-11 dose… 10 mcg. 2 doses.
8) Not holding back… we need to call out the @US_FDA to speed the review meetings up!

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8 Oct
So I hired a guy (let’s call him Gus) to paint my house—but Gus is unvaccinated. House is empty—so I hired him & chatted with him daily (w/🪟open) hoping he might consider. Day 3—Gus got #vaccinated this morning—he chose Moderna for lowest breakthroughs. Convince your neighbors!
2) I tried lots of lines of reasonings with him — hospitals are full — help keep hospitals empty for others. They seemed to work. It seems he lives a solitary life and mostly watches TV. So there wasn’t many real people for him to talk to. So some casual conversation eased him in
3) I pulled out my phone and showed him lots of CDC graphs and charts. He at first wanted J&J, which I said was good. But he just wanted to not goto the hospital, which I pointed out Moderna had lowest breakthroughs & higher efficacy than 1-shot J&J against hospitalization: see👇
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8 Oct
BATHROOMS. RESTAURANTS. SCHOOL CLASSROOMS. OFFICES. Not just hospitals and clinics. The virus can linger in the air for hours. Forget outdated 6-feet droplet 💧rule. Huge superspreading outbreaks from aerosols have been documented. REPEAT: #COVIDisAirborne - pass it on! #COVID19 Image
2) A single case led to a hospital outbreak - despite the max number of people just being 4. The virus stayed in the air for hours infecting many more people.
3) How is aerosol different from large droplets? aerosol study indicates that coronavirus is persistent and stable for many hours. Typical air exchange every 20 min to 4 hrs, depending on ventilation. #COVID19
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8 Oct
🏳A fuming top #NationalSecurity friend told me—“not having kids vaccine approved yet is like being in a 2-year World War but still having a Federal Bullet Committee casually debating (instead of expediting) if we are ready to send bullets to our troops dying in the trenches!” 🧵
2) This retired top national security friend has served in multiple WH administrations, and handled multiple global crises. He is completely disgusted that the FDA is going to casually wait till the 26th of October to meet.  #YoungBloodOnTheirHands was his suggested hash.
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8 Oct
⚠️KIDS & YOUNG ADULT DEATHS—An inconvenient horrible reality of #DeltaVariant is just how many young people are dying— both % deaths where ~8% of deaths in kids 5-14 are #COVID19, plus 10x⬆️ spike of age 15-24 per capita deaths! 👀 #vaccinate  🧵

CDC data—figure by @DrWilliamKu ImageImage
2) it is horrible. But I say “inconvenient reality” because many governments - from provinces to states around the world are ignoring this in efforts to push “learn to live with the virus”. That is abominable. Kids are not immune to #COVID19, not matter how many pretend it is. Image
3) 20 kids dying a week is nothing to scoff at.
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8 Oct
📍ORPHANED—The number of U.S. children orphaned during the #COVID19 pandemic likely larger than previously estimated—120,000—the toll has been far greater among Black & Hispanic Americans. And this only included up to Feb 2021– more during #DeltaVariant.
apnews.com/article/corona…
2) more than 120,000 U.S. children lost a parent or grandparent who was a primary provider of financial support & care, the study found. Another 22,000 children experienced the death of a secondary caregiver —eg a grandparent who provided housing but not other basic needs.
3) In many instances, surviving parents or other relatives remained to provide for these children. But the researchers used the term “orphanhood” in their study as they attempted to estimate how many children’s lives were upended.
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GET HEPA FILTERS—Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air. An inexpensive portable #HEPA filter efficiently screened #SARSCoV2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air. #COVIDisAirborne #COVID19

nature.com/articles/d4158…
2) “This study suggests that HEPA air cleaners, which remain little-used in Canadian hospitals, are a cheap and easy way to reduce risk from airborne pathogens,” says @DFisman, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, Canada, who was not involved in the research.
3) And the scientists found that the filters don’t only protect against SARS-CoV-2. When the filters were switched off, the air contained detectable amounts of other pathogens that cause infections, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pyogenes.
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