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2 Jan, 19 tweets, 5 min read
Schools do not drive infection.

Schools do not drive infection?
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1. Heymann 2004. Schools had big effect.

2009. Closing schools had "drastic effect".

... stopped spread amongst kids, then amongst population.

More comments from Heymann 2004 (2009 is typo)

US flu plan noted schools drive.



You can keep them open as a policy, don't get me wrong, but public health saying they do not drive is silly.
Heymann

Cauchemez

Australian study of flu in 2019 found significant effect closing schools

Earn 2012 from Alberta:

Measles found to spread at schools



These are not during this pandemic, so not politically biased. There are studies conducted during this pandemic, but I've deliberately left them out of this thread for now (they're in original thread)
Like I said, make whatever policy conclusion you want, but having public health "bless this hustle" is a lie.
The very first post picture is Ottawa Public Health saying schools not a driver, that's why I say that.
It's garbage.
Thank you public health.
In that thread are also also older articles, which note again that kids catch chickenpox and measles at schools and bring home
They are free of any political bias that might arise being released during COVID, either pro or con school opening.
Here's another one from 2018

bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

again same conclusion, and BEFORE this pandemic.
Get free of the political fight going on (pro/con school closing) by looking to studies done OUTSIDE COVID.
This is not my job. I just hate lies and know that most people do not assume science lies. I know it does.

Here is a good search URL: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22s…

Limit to 2019 and before to avoid COVID articles, if you want.

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2 Jan
Maybe medical officers of health (MOHs) need to be reminded of what the Ontario Medical Association thinks their role is:

"Guarding the Health of Citizens".

Hmm.

And all I'm doing is clearing out old PDFs. Imagine I started making a case for their abdication of their duty?
It's almost comical
This report is entertaining to me because it's the OMA lobbying for more jobs. They encouraged the maintenance of all the local community boards and that there needed to be an MOH (who are very well paid) in each one. The opposite of what SARS Commission said was needed.
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2 Jan
This, forever. Chains of transmission do not magically infect everyone, and even if lots seroconvert we have no clue how much is with clinical illness or no clinical illness at all.
Did you know there were about 9000 cases of SARS identified around the world.

Yet, when they tested animal handlers in the region from which SARS originated, 16% of them had antibodies?

ISNT THAT WEIRD EH?
The comments about everyone getting this disease are probably founded on nonsense (because nobody ever explains), but let's assume they are not, they are probably based on high seroconversion percentages in populations.

These are not an indication of clinical illness.
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2 Jan
Well this was a bad take.
Pic from the report, which I just skimmed.

journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

1. So, the sample in the human is exactly the same as sample in the camel, and those in the air, but somehow it's "not good enough evidence. Right.
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2 Jan
Disaster myth strikes the @WHO and they falsely believe saying virus is "airborne" will panic the world.

This is lack of training

Separate note calling it a "technical term", or that people knew, is disingenuous as supposed "experts". All of their messaging was handwash come on
@WHO Now, every time they deny it I'll retweet @jljcolorado's thread. Fair warning, @WHO
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The video does not tell people what to do to protect themselves. It does the opposite.

It is a ridiculous assertion that "people know".

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2 Jan
Apparently I ended up quoted. As always, some comments get left on the cutting room floor.

I think Canadians are routinely ripped off

I think the price we pay for rapid tests (~10 to 15 per) is far too high

I think the people who most could use them, cannot afford them
Side note but not one we discussed was I think we will find huge waste in the system, tests gone missing etc. Sold on black market etc

Glad they gave them to school children to at least try something to blunt spread for returning kids.
And one clarification: I don't think paying 15 per kit in Oct is "a bargain". You can pay 15 now.

I think Canadians get ripped off routinely because companies know we are a wealthy country. And 15 is far more than rapid tests cost elsewhere (1.1 USD in bulk)
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