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Professor Stephen Griffin accepts invitation to give @thackraymuseum #Insights lecture in memory of Monty Losowsky

Recorded 04.03.23

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▪️ What is a vaccine?
▪️ How do vaccines work (1 of 2)

#SARSCoV2 #Vaccines #Children twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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▪️ What is a vaccine?
▪️ How do vaccines work? (2 of 2)

#SARSCoV2 #Vaccines #Children

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▪️ What is a virus?
▪️ What is SARS-CoV2?

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▪️SARS2 has not gone away
▪️Omecron has got better at infecting us
▪️Multiple, successive waves 2022/23
▪️Prevax: enormous peaks in hospital admissions necessitated mitigations
▪️The Covid-19 vaccination era
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▪️The Covid-19 vaccination era
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▪️Mitigations against Covid-19 wiped out ‘flu because it’s [flu] much less infectious than SARS-CoV2
▪️Post viral syndromes haven’t happened before on this scale
▪️Long Covid
▪️Many viruses are not just a cold

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▪️Covid-19 isn’t just a cold
▪️Covid-19 vaccines
▪️Long Covid

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▪️Long Covid
▪️Prevalence

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▪️How well protected are we now?
▪️Do children and young people require protection from SARS-CoV2 (1 of 2)

#Children #SARS #COVID19

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▪️Do children and young people require protection from SARS-CoV2 (2 of 2)
▪️Long Covid Kids charity
▪️Schools
▪️Vaccines

#LongCovidKids #School #Vaccine #Covid19

@LongCovidKids @jneill
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▪️% vaccinated
▪️Primary and secondary school children were infected the most
▪️”I’m going to infect you to become immune to the thing that you want to be protected from”
▪️Multiple reinfections in children

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▪️Is it acceptable to allow mass infection?
▪️Cardiovascular, neurological problems and diabetes due to SARS2 infection
▪️Vaccine-plus approach

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▪️Vaccine vs infection induced immunity in children

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▪️All the kids have been infected, so they’re infected right?
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▪️Like all medicine vaccines can elicit adverse reactions
▪️Myocarditis
▪️Excess mortality

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▪️Long Covid in children
▪️@LongCovidKids
▪️Core participants in the #CovidInquiryUK

#LongCovidKids #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #MedTwitter

@jneill
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▪️Long Covid in Kids
▪️Reinfection in children
▪️Vaccines

@jneill @LongCovidKids
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▪️Will SARS-CoV2 become an endemic, seasonal respiratory virus?
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▪️Why vaccinate children in the future?
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