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Urgency of Normal🧵

“Opinion: Let the old normal reign in schools without the threat of COVID restrictions”

Drs Grant, Fulford, Ladhani & Kazemi, Special to NP
09/23/2022

nationalpost.com/opinion/opinio……

Drs Grant & Fulford=Urgency of Normal

urgencyofnormal.com/our-team

“Personal email address of Hamilton health-care leader used to make $1,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ donation”

thespec.com/news/hamilton-…

“Physicians who spread misinformation may be eroding trust in health care system, experts say”

Mar 6, 2022

theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/art…

“A high-profile example of a physician group accused of promoting false and misleading information related to COVID-19 is the Urgency of Normal.”

“has come under fire in recent weeks over its assertion that youth suicide rates have increased during the pandemic. Tyler Black, a child & adolescent psychiatrist at the UBC, challenged the grp on Twitter, pointing out that youth suicide has not increased during the pandemic.”

““I consider it ghoulish to wield child suicide statistics inaccurately to make advocacy points,” Dr. Black wrote.”

“The Urgency of Normal has since taken that claim out of its materials. But one of the grp’s members, Martha Fulford, an infectious disease physician who works at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, is facing criticism for some of her statements about the risks of COVID-19”

“Dr. Fulford is quoted in the media frequently & is involved with a # of advocacy groups calling for an end to pandemic restrictions.
She gave 2 online talks in recent weeks that misrepresented the recs of Canada’s national immunization panel for COVID-19 vaccination in children.

”…& made statements based on an incomplete assessment of data, asserting that kids are not at risk from the virus & that masks in schools do nothing to stop the spread.”

“ (Thousands of children have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. And a report published in February by Public Health Ontario found schools with mask mandates had a lower incidence of infection.)”

“Dr. Fulford said in a January online talk viewed nearly 30,000 times on YouTube that pandemic health measures aimed at children, including masks at schools, social distancing and teachers wearing N95 respirators and face shields, are abusive.”

“She gave another online talk on Feb. 2, hosted by Families For Choice, a Calgary-based parent group with 25,000 members that questions the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, likens vaccination mandates to segregation, and has participated in trucker convoy protests.”

“During that talk, she acknowledged there are rare risks to children, but said kids are more likely to die from causes such as drowning and cancer than COVID-19, so the risks of the virus should be accepted.”

““While COVID can be a problem for some children, we need the context,” said Dr. Fulford, who is also an associate prof at McMaster University based at the McMaster University Health Centre. “It is nowhere near as severe as a lot of the risks that we accept in any given day.””

“Many health experts say that line of thinking is deeply flawed, as there is constant, ongoing work to reduce the incidence of childhood drowning, cancer, accidents and other causes of death in kids.”

“In an interview with The Globe and Mail after her Feb. 2 talk, Dr. Fulford defended her statements and repeated the claim that COVID-19 poses almost no danger to children.”

Risks of #C19 in children=
#LongCovidKids

“Long-COVID in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analyses”

June 23 2022

“… 80,071 children and adolescents were included. The prevalence of long-COVID was 25.24%”

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Risks 0-17 CDC

“w/ previous COVID-19 had higher rates of”

Acute pulmonary embolism (adjusted hazard ratio = 2.01)
Myocarditis & cardiomyopathy (1.99)
Venous thromboembolic event (1.87)
Acute & unspecified renal failure (1.32)
Type 1 diabetes (1.23)

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7……

Gov of Canada

#LongCovidKids

“The best way to currently prevent post COVID-19 condition is to take measures to avoid getting infected.”

“There's currently no universally agreed-upon approach to diagnose and treat post COVID-19 condition.”

canada.ca/en/public-heal…

“Study Finds Previous C19 Infection Doesn’t Protect Children From Omicron”

6/9/2022

“A new study found that <10% of children who contracted C19 in 2020 or early 2021 developed neutralizing antibody titers against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2”

forbes.com/sites/williamh…

CDC

“🌎, millions of children have become orphans during the C19 pandemic
…increases the likelihood of poverty, abuse, delayed development, mental health challenges, reduced access to education, & institutionalization”

est 10.5 mil globally

1/5/2022

cdc.gov/globalhealth/t…

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“Physicians who spread misinformation may be eroding trust in health care system, experts say”

theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/art…

“In her Feb talk, Dr. Fulford said… most children don’t need to be 💉 – which contradicts official guidance from..(NACI).”

“Most medical professionals have rejected the idea of targeting only high-risk people, in part because it’s impossible to predict who will develop severe illness and the fact that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks.”

“Dr. Fulford suggested that NACI’s recommendations for kids 5 to 11 are similar to those in places like Norway and the U.K., which have decided mass immunization campaigns aren’t worthwhile and that only high-risk kids need to be vaccinated…”

“NACI’s actual recommendation, which was strengthened in Jan, is that children 5-11 should be offered vaccination against COVID-19. The national immunization committee in the U.K. has changed its approach, now saying all kids, not just those at high risk, should be offered 💉”

“Wendy Stewart, a spokesperson for Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, said Dr. Fulford was not representing the hospital when she made the remarks.”

“According to the PHAC, 3,875 children 19 and under have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Of those, 395 have been admitted to the ICU. And 29 children aged 19 and under have died as a result of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.”

About Urgency of Normal

urgencyofnormal.com/about

“Why Is This Grp of Docs So Intent on Unmasking Kids?”

newrepublic.com/article/165413…

“…Urgency of Normal are cherry-picking data in their push to end pandemic precautions…favorable MSM attention & support from wealthy, white communities that never felt the full brunt of C19.”

@AmerAcadPeds

https://twitter.com/AmerAcadPeds/status/1563241280741994496?s=20&t=KQcUuuXj5APWVjox3WkOJQ

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#Masks

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“Brownstone’s donor breakdown is unclear, but its founder consults for the AIER, which receives $ from the Charles Koch Foundation & a Koch-$ PR firm Emergent Order. AIER aided the GBD—an early (& widely denounced) campaign to drop C19 precautions...”

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More on Urgency of Normal

statnews.com/2022/06/01/kid…

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Also Urgency of Normal, Dr. Vinay Prasad

urgencyofnormal.com/our-team

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