Thread by @ZiadFazel

#COVID19AB Child Vaccination
Bogus Statistics 🧵

IMO, AB Health is falsely inflating the number and % of children age 5-11 getting vaccinated.

Here's how:

alberta.ca/stats/covid-19…

/c @SOSAlberta @wingkarli

Let's zoom further into this graph, and isolate ages 5-11:
• Why was it at 4.7% before the vaccine campaign for this age group even started?
• Since when did age 5-11 start getting vaccinated in May?
• 4.7% of 391,430 kids this age is about 18,400 kids.

Something's wrong.🧐

4.7%, or 18,400, is way too many kids age 5-11 to be so at risk from COVID-19 that they get an adult dose before Health Canada has even approved a paediatric dose.

So where did this come from? Aha!

Note 2. Sneaky, sneaky, AB Health.

alberta.ca/stats/covid-19…

So Alberta Health is falsely claiming 4.7% of kids age 5-11 are vaccinated, even though:
• those kids got vaccinated because they turn 12 in 2021
• they got an adult dose, not a child dose
• before the paediatric vax rollout started 26 Nov
• they're all 12 in 2 days anyway

I warned about this in a thread on 7 Dec:
• the pace of child vax was low
• there were no targets or plan
• there was a LOT of obfuscation

Maybe I should change my words above from "Sneaky" to "Slimy" or "Unethical".

https://twitter.com/ZiadFazel/status/1468359612239728643?s=20

As of my thread on 7 Dec, AB Health was being honest about age 5-11 vaccination being zero until 26 November.↙️

Since then, they decided to juice the numbers by 4.7%. ↘️

Why do this? Why pretend the age 5-11 child vax level is at 35.5%, when it is really at 30.8%?

Maybe because it looks like child vaccination is plateauing between 30 and 35%?

Which is less than half the level of the next older age 12-19, or the Alberta average?

Maybe it is because the drive-by shooting from Premier, Health Min & CMOH when announcing the approval of this child vaccine was too effective?

And now that Omicron is here, infecting & hospitalizing children under 12, under 5, it is DECEPTION TIME?

https://twitter.com/ZiadFazel/status/1462274149296926722?s=20

This ties in with what Dr Ogbogu explained yesterday: the Alberta Government is depriving mature minors with capacity to decide for themselves of their right to health care by allowing antivax parents to stop them from getting vaccinated.

/c @Lorian_H

https://twitter.com/UbakaOgbogu/status/1475959288543662083?s=20

I don't know how many children age 5-11 could be considered mature enough to have capacity to decide for themselves, but same obstruction.

See also Dr Hinshaw's claim earlier that school COVID-19 vaccinations were not happening because parents wanted to be there. Really?

Before I dive back into 📈, @Jantafrench connected the dots.

AB parents have to decide whether to send their kids age 5-11 back to school Mon or Tue.

IMO, falsely inflating the vax levels of age 5-11 gives a deceptive view of elementary school safety.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Suspicious change btwn 19 & 20 December:

19 Dec:
• 107,626 doses in age 5-11, all 1st dose, for 27.5%
• 101,763 doses age "Unknown" across doses 1-3

20 Dec:
• 142,561 doses age 5-11, of which 129,565 1st dose, for 33.1%, and 12,985 2nd doses
• 70,232 doses age "Unknown"

All other age groups got modest increases typical of one day's worth of vaccination.

So I have to ask:
• Why would age 5-11 doses go up nearly 34,935 doses in one day?
• of which 12,985 2nd Dose?!
• when Unknown age goes down 31,531?
• and age 12-19 goes up 254 as expected?

Sure looks to me like AB Health pulled 31,531 doses on 20 Dec 2021 from age "Unknown", to fudge them into age 5-11, to pump up those vax numbers:
• which explains +12,985 2nd Dose +11 3rd Dose
• the remaining increase of 3,404 in age 5-11 is consistent with a day of 1st Doses