Thread by @DrEricDing

⚠️More children age 0-19 died of #COVID19 in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in October than any past month of the pandemic. Plus—kids hospitalizations & #LongCovid also ~highs. But UK🇬🇧 still hasn’t approved vaccines for kids 5-11, nor 2nd shots for teens.

HT @Antonio_Caramia
ilpandacentrostudio.it/uk.html

2) Also, Damnit, UK doesn’t mandate masks in schools. “186,000 students were absent from school on Sept. 30 with confirmed or suspected cases of the virus, 78% more than the number reported on Sept. 16, and the highest number since the pandemic began.”
nytimes.com/2021/10/05/wor…

3) Kids are **critical spreaders** — detailed tracing and genomic testing prove it. See thread 🧵 below 👇

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1458027885541928961

4) Masks are important for schools and general public venues.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1456188127916306434

5) the pace of deaths in England kids has recently picked up… 7 deaths in 1 week most recently!

Let this sink in—England is about just under 1/6th of US. So that would be ~40 equivalent to if US had deaths a week. (US has not even come close to that scale of pediatric deaths!)

https://twitter.com/TigressEllie/status/1458170924600020998

5) the pace of kids #COVID19 deaths in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 has recently picked up… 7 deaths in 1 week recently!

Let this sink in—England is about just under 1/6th of US. So that would be equivalent to if US had ~40 deaths a week. (US has not even come close to that scale of pediatric deaths!)

https://twitter.com/TigressEllie/status/1458170924600020998

6) Not just England — but rest of Europe and the world too. I don’t think a February #Beijing2022 Olympics is a good idea. I worry.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1458535340046753792