How on earth is this not a scandal? Long COVID numbers in children have more than tripled in 6 months. 117,000 children with long COVID and 20,000 with illness for *more than a year*. How on earth is this acceptable? - these are children!
https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1479066859270025219
I cannot bear the fact that we live in a society that has normalised mass infection of children, with a virus that's causing long term illness in >100K kids, and has a higher mortality rate than every other childhood illness.
And yet, our govt will do next to nothing to make schools safer. JCVI will not vaccinated children from a preventable disease. Scientists and paediatricians will continue to argue against basic mitigations that protect children. How on earth did this happen?
ffs - even if all you care about are attendance figures and nothing else, vaccinate children and mitigations in schools will mean less disruption to in person education- with the added benefit of protecting children from chronic disease.
You know the worst part? The impact of mass infection from nov onwards not even in these figures yet. So the figures in two months time will be much higher, and this is already baked in. How have we let our children down so so so badly as a society?
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