In Titusville, @GovRonDeSantis says the Federal government will not be allowed to weaponize agencies against concerned parents in Florida in their pursuit of parental rights over their child's education, including the decision whether to wear masks in schools
The father of a down syndrome, special needs student in Brevard County is now speaking. The father said a mask was being tied to his daughter's face when she couldn't keep it on against their will.
The data does not support any mask mandates of children in schools says @FLSurgeonGen. He says there simply isn't any justification for it.
The Governor is poking fun of @SecCardona who cited four mask studies a few weeks back that allegedly showed efficacy of masks in schools, yet none of them had control groups. There were three who didn't study and a fourth was a simulation with theoretical inputs.
"We're not going to be cooperating with any investigations of parents," said the Governor. He says they will thwart any investigation by the Federal government into complaints against parents for speaking out.
The Governor adds there are things they can fortify legislatively going forward on top of what has been done.
"We are going to be rolling out some additional protections in addition to what we have already in the law," the Governor says about vaccine mandates.
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Masks are not mandatory now in classrooms in: UK, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium (12 & under), Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria (up to 5th grade), most of South America, etc. Masking children in the U.S. isn't science.
Also remember: the World Health Organization does NOT recommend masking kids 0-5 years old in any circumstance, despite our unscientific CDC guidance wanting to mask up 2 year olds.
Nikki Fried is pushing a baseless conspiracy theory and shamelessly cherry picking data to push her mask agenda. She wants to force kids into masks even though much of the world has realized that is a pointless exercise.
First, there was NO statistically significant difference in case rates in the 2020-21 school year in Florida between the 40 county districts with mandatory masking and the 27 who did not have a mask policy and no statistical difference in community rates.
In real world data, where cases were adjusted to end of year enrollment, there was a difference in masking districts to unmasked difference of only a few children per 1,000 kids enrolled in-person.
Did Anthony Fauci lie when he said more children have died from the virus than ever have died from the flu? Unless you think he's an incompetent boob that didn't learn a thing in 50 years in public health (hold the jokes please), then yes. And I will demonstrate that here.
So far, there have been 439 deaths of children ages 0-17 *with* COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Remember, this is over 20 months -- the first of many important qualifiers.
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From the CDC Wonder database, for multiple cause of death, here are the number of deaths ages 0-17 with flu for ICD-10 codes J09-J11 for types of influenza by year 2010-19.
So Fauci was telling the truth, right? Hold up. No, not even close.
Momentarily @GovRonDeSantis will be speaking on mABs. Some highlights:
* 25 state run monoclonal treatment sites
* Over 90,000 treatments provided so far
* 50% decrease in hospital admissions
* 24 consecutive days decline in census
* Lowest CLI visits to ER in almost 2 mos.
The Governor is pointing out Florida was also the first to do the first vaccine drive and going into nursing homes and high risk patients with strike teams.
Remember those days when Florida put #SeniorsFirst despite going against CDC guidance because they were most at-risk.
In addition, the Governor is noting that at some of the sites, over half of the people receiving mABs treatment had already been vaccinated. This is a treatment that can benefit people regardless of vaccination status. It's an additional layer of protection from severe disease.
If this article is TL;DR for you, the RDV is this:
Study of over 50,000 COVID hospitalizations in VA hospitals. In 2020, about 36% were mild or asymptomatic as defined by blood oxygen levels >94 without supp oxygen. Through June 2021, 48% were considered mild/asymptomatic.
It makes sense 2021 is a higher rate. Remember I have been saying since Oct. 2020 that the HHS guidelines changed to include observation beds. People going to the ER to have sniffles checked out for >8 hours in a bed started counting in the numbers late in 2020.