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Michael Absoud
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Paediatrician @EvelinaLondon ,clinical academic @KingsCollegeLon, Neurodevelopmental,epilepsy, long term conditions, mental health:Views personal #Recovery4Kids
Sep 12 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Damning Darzi review in children’s health 🧵

“There has been a surge in multiple long-term conditions, and, particularly among
children and young people, in mental health needs. Fewer children are getting the immunisations they need to protect their health”

1/ “As of June 2024, more than 1 million people were waiting for community services, including more than 50,000 people who had been waiting for over a year, *80% of whom are children* and young people”

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Mar 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
DAMNING report—

The last decade has seen the UK’s child poverty rates increase more than any advanced economy..



1/ ft.com/content/55072b…
Image By 2029, the think-tank @resfoundation projects that more than half of children in large families will be living in relative poverty, a higher rate than in 1997.

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Oct 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
HUGE from Prof Graham Medley today I’m Covid Inquiry—

"I was assured that the quantitative exploration of the impact of measures on the economy, education, mental health and societal well-being was being done."
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Sep 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Two years ago, progressives critical of the government’s handling of the pandemic took to calling the UK ‘Plague Island’

Once the dust had settled, the UK was in the middle of the pack for pandemic mortality”

ft.com/content/799d86…
Image telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/2…
Jun 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ A devastating 🌍 report

“Children & young people—specifically those living in monetary poor households 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , 🇿🇦 & 🇧🇷 , have been dramatically impacted by COVID-19 & are still suffering from the consequences of the pandemic..this age group has been disproportionately affected” 2/
 “ anticipating and mitigating longer-term detrimental consequences of COVID-19 on specific vulnerable groups have, problematically, not been prioritised when they should have been. Overall, little consideration was given to inter-generational social justice”
Mar 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Devastating piece on— the collapse of youth mental health over the last few years…

ft.com/content/0e2f6f…
Mar 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
What this survey doesn’t tell you— is the huge “hidden waiting lists” with children waiting years for an assessment of a neurodevelopmental condition #ADHD #Learning #Tics #ASD Many children also have underlying genetics and/or medical conditions, educational and social needs— and hence their emotional wellbeing deteriorated whilst waiting on the list..

With wider family impacts
Dec 11, 2022 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Amidst all the iSAGE revisionism and back tracking — a 🧵

First up 4 Dec 2020: Calling for Universities to close

1/
 Next calling for Calling for school closures 30 Dec 2020

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Oct 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A really important new paper with a significant recent marked rise in—

adolescents seeking urgent help for functional tic-like behaviours,

Associated with social media exposure, particularly TikTok videos

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/en… Globally— a recent big increase in referrals of adolescent females for diagnosis of Tourette syndrome, but actually presenting with sudden onset functional tic-movements rather than Tourette.
Aug 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Devastating piece. Devastating.

The anxious generation — what’s bothering Britain’s schoolchildren?

“most fragile, inadequately prepared and unhappy group of Year 13 students ever to collect A-level results.”

ft.com/content/1ae1d6… “missed half the work in Year 12 as they were incarcerated in their homes. They had never taken public exams before as they missed their GCSEs. Add to that the emotional fallout from Covid-19:cooped up away from friends and relations and without any of the rituals of life” Image
Jun 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Just like risk/balance made for some vaccines for adults

We are lucky in the UK is exercising caution

Thankfully kids are extremely low risk of disease and Long Covid

Should kids be vaccinated to protect adults

or is it more efficient to vaccinate older adults with boosters? It’s very clear schools don’t drive transmission - so caution needs be used to use this narrative
Apr 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
**REACT-1** England COVID surveillance (11-30 March)- great news!

After schools FULLY open:

Drop in primary schools by 45%

Drop in secondary schools by 66%

spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/1004… I find it absolutely remarkable that sectors of society are still saying that

nursery and primary school kids in England (1 in 13 of total population) are driving the pandemic

Why??