6/ for example, 12-15 year olds living in the most deprived areas were Only HALF as likely to have had one jab compared to those least deprived areas 👇
7/ also: black Caribbean children are more than 4 times less likely to have had 1 jab, and more than 5 times less likely to have had 2 jabs compared to white British children
8/ also pupils living in a household with an adult aged 75 or over were only slightly more likely to have had a vaccine
( priority for public health communication is to encourage as many household members of a vulnerable family member to have a vaccine )
(Caveats noted here 👇)
Also May be of interest to @devisridhar who has been a big proponent of sage effective vaccines for children:
🚨 Our final report on #COVID19 and public experiences published👇
What have we learned?
Trust the public
Lack of trust in government harmed compliance
Rules needed to be clear & consistent
Ppl needed more financial support
Misinformation=big problemswansea.ac.uk/press-office/n…
2/ Brief thread on what we have found so far. As the @covidinquiryuk is ongoing
...& lessons for future
Report here:
Also, work forms basis of peer review publications, inc:
The whip has been removed - very important. Such anti-vax sentiments are not ‘freedom of speech’ but are dangerous misinformation that can lead to avoidable death or disease
Even *if* COVID was 'just another' virus (its not BTW), then this is still a problem. Here's why 🧵
In short, having ('just') ANOTHER virus that hospitalises many and infects many, many more ON TOP of existing respiratory viruses, is a big burden on healthcare
2/n the classic epidemiology bathtub metaphor may be useful here. Lets think of the bathtub as NHS (healthcare system) capacity ... adding covid to the mix, is like rapidly opening the tap up - or rather, like turning an extra tap on.
3/Also its not a choice between covid OR other viral infections
So not only can people get re-infected with covid multiple times, they can also get infected withmultiple viruses-i'll defer to epidemologists and virologists like @SGriffin_Lab@ArisKatzourakis@dgurdasani1 4 more