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Mar 10 12 tweets 8 min read
“If it was so bad, they would be telling us”

“They have, it’s in the fine print.”

“They would have told us harder”

“They’ve never stopped recommending protections”

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H/T @o_bel_ @FrankenTan


🇨🇦edition, Federal, Provincial, Municipal…

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#LongCovid “If it was so bad, they would be telling us”

“They have, it’s in the fine print”

🇨🇦Federal:Govt of🇨🇦 Sept 2021

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#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids
#TreatLongCovid
#PreventLongCovid
#WeAllShareIndoorAir
#ReadTheFinePrint
Nov 17, 2023 28 tweets 5 min read
“Scottish Children’s Futures Are At Risk as Long Covid Takes Hold”

17/11/23

H/T @Dakota_150 @HelenMMGoss



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#LongCovidKids
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#WeAllShareIndoorAir “Helen Goss, COO and Scotland Lead of Charity Long Covid Kids confirms the healthcare situation for children and young people with Long Covid is hugely frustrating…”
Nov 7, 2023 182 tweets 30 min read
SCOTTISH COVID-19 INQUIRY @covidinquirysco

Written+Oral testimony

#LongCovidKids Scotland @LCKScotland

COO @HelenMMGoss

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#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#WeAllShareIndoorAir
#WearARespirator
#CleanAir
#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids
#TreatLongCovid
#PreventLongCovid TESTIMONY: NOV 3 2023
AFTERNOON SESSION

Written Testimony #LongCovidKids :



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covid19inquiry.scot/sites/default/…
Sep 7, 2023 11 tweets 6 min read
Dr Kyeremanteng a “distinguished speaker” on #LongCovid at Oct conference



@Alberta_Pain did you know…

He has spoken on #C19 (which causes #LongCovid) infection prevention in kids like this, a🧵

@Alberta_Pain Is this an ethical/appropriate choice? painab.ca/annualconferen…
Image Dr Kyeremanteng a “distinguished speaker” on #LongCovid at @Alberta_Pain Oct conference



#LongCovid results from #C19 infection

@Alberta_Pain Is this an ethical/appropriate #LongCovid speaker choice?



#LongCovidKidspainab.ca/annualconferen…
Aug 21, 2023 16 tweets 6 min read
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Most families don’t yet understand #LongCovidKids risks of #C19 infection due to a lack of info combined with a lot of uncorrected misinfo

From Long Covid Families, a US nonprofit:



It’s tragic

#LongCovidKids Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the uncorrected misinfo landscape as far as #C19 & kids are concerned from a perinatal epidemiologist

H/T @olga_basso

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#LongCovidKids
Feb 25, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
“Wastewater study finds masks prevent COVID-19 in schools

Feb 22/2023”

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H/T @ESL_fairy

healio.com/news/primary-c… “A study that used wastewater signals to identify cases of COVID-19 found that even a small increase in the proportion of people wearing masks at elementary schools in one California county significantly reduced the chance of a case.”
Feb 12, 2023 106 tweets 34 min read
“COVID-19 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?”

From Clinical Infectious Diseases

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watermark.silverchair.com/ciad068.pdf?to…

H/T @DFisman “This is an account that should be heard of an important struggle: the struggle of a large group of experts who came together at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to warn the world about the risk of airborne transmission and the consequences of ignoring it.”
Feb 2, 2023 41 tweets 12 min read
“Rethinking COVID hegemony” 1/2/2023

croakey.org/rethinking-cov…

H/T @sameo416

“Earlier this year, writing for The Canberra Times, I proposed the idea of “COVID Hegemony” to explain the transformation of our pandemic outlook… …Hegemony, in short, refers to the dominance maintained by those in power to ensure that their preferred worldview is seen as natural, inevitable & beneficial to all, largely by manufacturing the consent of the people.”
Jan 29, 2023 26 tweets 5 min read
“Shielding under endemic SARS-CoV-2 conditions is easier said than done: a model-based analysis”

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… “As the #C19 pandemic continues unabated, many governments & PH bodies worldwide have ceased to implement concerted measures for limiting viral spread, placing the onus instead on the individual…
Jan 27, 2023 40 tweets 28 min read
“Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us

I’m 28 and one of many disabled from the pandemic. We need a public health plan for this.”

H/T @TheTyee

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“Before the pandemic, I was a law student who spent my weekdays studying for long hours and my weekends hiking or cycling. When I developed COVID-19 symptoms in late March 2020, my case was mild….”
Dec 23, 2022 40 tweets 11 min read
“Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay

We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.”

21/12/2022

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/…

H/T @TheTyee “As the pandemic evolves, the failure of current public health policies now shines clearer than a midnight star. The assumption that hybrid immunity — vaccines combined with infections — would end COVID’s relentless evolution has fed the pandemic, not starved it”
Dec 22, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
“FDA approves new monoclonal antibody for hospitalized COVID-19 patients” 12/21/22

thehill.com/policy/healthc… “The drug, called Actemra, was originally approved in 2010 to treat adult patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. The company says that is the first FDA-approved monoclonal antibody intended to treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19.”
Dec 10, 2022 8 tweets 8 min read
“Number of sick children transferred to open Ontario hospital beds hit high in November”

Dec 9, 2022

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globalnews.ca/news/9333658/o… “Ornge is now looking to increase flight certificates to be able to fly into the United States, if required, as the province potentially leans on existing relationships with hospitals in border states to help manage the load.”
Dec 9, 2022 16 tweets 19 min read
#FreeTheN95s
#BringBackMasks
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The unmitigated airborne spread of airborne viruses like COVID-19, RSV, & influenza is causing children to get ill en masse

ON PICUs are preventably crashing with screaming children gasping for air

This is a preventable paediatric emergency A 2 year old toddler died tragically in an Ajax hospital

No space in Children’s hospital child for a child rescued from a fire

3-4 kids a day resuscitated

Red Cross at CHEO

A preventable paediatric emergency

More care with kids, not less

#FreeTheN95s
#BringBackMasks
Dec 8, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
“Many of these children unfortunately have had COVID infections over the past number of months, and there is increasing evidence that COVID has caused a dysregulation of our immune systems making us even more susceptible to these other viruses…

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…I think it’s very important to get 💉… but also it’s very important to keep these kids protected with other measures like masking… I think we have to use all of the layers of protection that we have to help our children during this very difficult time.”
Dec 8, 2022 47 tweets 27 min read
“Study: Bacterial pneumonia was main killer in 1918 flu pandemic
Robert Roos August 22, 2008”

cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vacc…

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H/T @CovidCanada1 “It was secondary bacterial pneumonia—not the influenza virus by itself—that killed most of the millions who perished in the 1918 flu pandemic…
Nov 21, 2022 35 tweets 14 min read
“Is COVID-19 Dysregulating Our Immune Systems? The Agenda, 14/11/22”



29:00 H/T @FurnessColin

“There is one logical thing to point out here. A virus has 2 strategies, broadly speaking, in terms of being successful… … & I think we can agree that #C19 is a pretty successful virus. It can mutate to change its appearance to avoid the immune system and we know that #C19 does that so does flu, every successful virus seems to be able to do that, or most…
Nov 10, 2022 13 tweets 10 min read
Dr. Kwadwo Kyerenmenteng

CHEO Board of Directors, Elected Directors

cheo.on.ca/en/about-us/bo… ImageImage Dr. Kwadwo Kyerenmenteng

Urgency Of Normal team

urgencyofnormal.com/our-team

About the Urgency of Normal

urgencyofnormal.com/about ImageImage
Nov 8, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read
“Kids are suffering from COVID in ways we never expected” Nov 7, 2022

archive.ph/vQSYE

H/T @picardonhealth @FurnessColin “There are those arguing that this spike is due to an “immunity deficit”–that children are getting sick now b/c they were deprived of infections during lockdowns & school closings…
Nov 6, 2022 7 tweets 7 min read
Routine 💉ON kids before age 2

to prevent illness:

Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Polio, Haemophilus influenza type b, Pneumoccal, Rotavirus, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella #C19 💉=safer acute phase
#LongCovidKids, some protection

Best protection #LongCovidKids ?
No infection

Says so right here

canada.ca/en/public-heal… Image
Nov 6, 2022 28 tweets 24 min read
Dear ON,

Stop waiting for those who are behaving the way they are with #IStandWithCUPE 😷 to tell you to put #Masks back on to prevent airborne spread of airborne viruses.

A non-exhaustive🧵 of their behaviour so far:



pingthread.com/thread/1588918… Paediatric hospitals & an explanation in laypersons terms, H/T Epidemiologist @FurnessColin:

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threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589103…