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COVID infections damage the heart and blood vessels. Tell me again why children are being allowed to catch it repeatedly? #MakeSchoolsSafe @wesstreeting @GwynneMP There is overwhelming evidence from so many studies that we should be avoiding covid see below.
62,000 children have long covid forbes.com/sites/ariannaj…
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DfE are failing to mitigate schools and many children are cev/cv. It is failing safeguarding of children to not mitigate for risks. Children are dying and they are ignoring this! #MakeSchoolsSafe standard.co.uk/news/uk/pupils…
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A little poem I wrote.

You may laugh & sneer,
You may even jeer,
‘Covid is Over!
Masks aren’t welcome here!’

Let me say, I see you.
I see your sideways glance.
I’d love to be able to educate you;
Given half a chance.
You may just get a runny nose
And feel ‘off’ for a week or two,
But what you see is not what you get, when Covid’s through with you.

Covid is sneaky & silent,
It infects your heart & brain,
It slowly wrecks your blood vessels, of every artery & vein.
It damages all your organs,
Sends blood clots to your brain,
And when you can’t remember that familiar word, you’ll cry: ‘It’s that brain fog again!’

‘But we have got immunity!’
That wonderful infamous thing.
‘Every infection makes me stronger - we will no doubt win!’
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@karamballes Dear @LaylaMoran @SalBrinton @CarolineLucas @GreenJennyJones
We are concerned. Real impacts on
@LongCovidKids @cv_cev @covid_teachers
Ranging from delayed vaccines 4kids & misinformation on HOW can schools can be made safe
#MustBEHeard
@karamballes @LaylaMoran @SalBrinton @CarolineLucas @GreenJennyJones @LongCovidKids @cv_cev @covid_teachers We CAN NOT hv #UsForThem a misinformation #ProMass infection group, antivax anti schools safety That ALLOW SUPERSPREADING events in high density environmts causing huge numbers #DeathAndDisability

Schools CAN BE PROTECTED
The inquiry must understand HOW
To #MakeSchoolsSafe
@karamballes @LaylaMoran @SalBrinton @CarolineLucas @GreenJennyJones @LongCovidKids @cv_cev @covid_teachers The inquiry must understand WHY
There was (&still is) a failure
To implement #CovidIsAirborne
Multilayered Approach
PROTECTION MEASURES
#ProtectKids & community #SaveNHS
To AIM for LOW infection rates
4 #LivesAndLearning

WHY are we no longer aiming for
#LowInfectionRates ?
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What are they doing?

Does this look even vaguely *competent* to you?

#auspol
Like… what on the earth?

No, no it is not OK to send all the double vaccinated teachers to the ventilators and then all the parent volunteers to the hospital, or maybe just to their own beds after that.

#auspol
You don’t just *plan* to burn through all the human beings. I haven’t even started on how detrimental it is to kids to have a different “teacher” every day.

#auspol
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I’d just like to point out at this stage that catastrophe planning is already done, it’s just a matter of implementing it. I guarantee you the hospital system can deal with anything. It’s been done elsewhere before…

No, it won’t be “hospital” as you have ever known.
The staff will suffer, the patients will suffer, elective work won’t get done, and emergency work might get done. In some countries it has been indicated by some sources that blanket decisions were made not to transfer many to hospital in the first place.
So if you are waiting for the hospital system to “collapse” before doing something, you could be waiting forever.

The question you should be asking is… where were we in terms of care delivery, where are we now, and where are we going?
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So, this is our Christmas story:
Year 6 son collected at end of school day Thurs by grandad (my F-I-L) shivering.
Maybe it was open windows/door with no coat allowed?
LFT just in case… positive.
Isolating at Grandad’s. He slept in coat as fever so bad.
100% caught in school. 1/6
Husband spent 10 mins with son each way in car to&from football practise on Tues. Negative LFT for us both Thurs, Fri, Sat morning. DH had “a bit of a headache Friday evening. After -ive LFT Sat am, went for booster in N95 mask at lunch time Sat. Flu like symptoms&poor sleep.
2/6
Put down to reaction to jab like first two times. Positive LFT Sun before it even reached control line. Husband now isolating in spare room& we’re using separate bathrooms as I’m 15 weeks pregnant. Pregnant women often very ill from covid& it’s only 9 days since my booster.
3/6
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If there’s ANYONE at @educationgovuk @CommonsEd with a heart or a conscience, please understand that forcing millions of unvaccinated children into mitigation-free schools day in day out is a level of #WilfulNegligence I didn’t imagine possible in modern 🇬🇧.
@nadhimzahawi
1/7🧵
#COVIDisAirborne - WE ALL KNOW THAT.

If you’re unsure of what that means for CROWDED, POORLY VENTILATED, INDOOR SPACES, like SCHOOLS…

❗️#ThinkSmoke ❗️

@halfon4harlowMP @peterkyle @KateGreenSU @sajidjavid
@RCPCHPresident @ChildrensComm @NAHTnews @karamballes @10DowningStreet
Whether the motivation is a flawed #DeliberateMassInfection policy to reach “Herd Immunity” or part of a wider plan to crush & crash the #NHS (hastening #NHSPrivatisation ) by letting #COVID “rip” …..it is wholly unacceptable, unethical & immoral to “experiment” on our young.
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Webinar 3 underway. - Real time Indoor Air Monitoring

Pollutants and sources.

#longcovidkids @better_indoors

#ProtectTheKids #makeschoolssafe
#BetterAirInSchools @SafeEdForAll_UK Image
What are we constantly exposed to?

Indoor Pollutant Thresholds

Those who warn about pollutants Without mentioning indoor the context of ambient or indoor air quality are scaremongering.

Real time monitors provide visibility.
We can’t see what we breathe.
#longcovidkids Image
We are constantly breathing levels of ozone.

Oops I missed the figures. Watch the video on YouTube later to catch them. 😬
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Now I’m getting really angry @GavinWilliamson @educationgovuk

This document isn’t t worth the paper/screen it’s written on!

Who advised you on this unscientific, dangerous nonsense?

@PHE_uk by any chance?
The same PHE that has failed HCPs on #PPE throughout the pandemic?
1/16
Just for a moment put the children, staff & families who’re being unnecessarily exposed to #COVID19 day after day in schools that are almost completely MITIGATION FREE.

Who’ll be caring for #COVID patients in the INEVITABLE, but AVOIDABLE surge that we’re at the start of?
2/
WHO Mr Williamson?

My HCP/NHS colleagues have for 18/12, & will continue to, put our lives, & those of our loved ones, at ⬆️risk to provide the care that patients w/ #COVID19 need across ALL healthcare settings & in their homes.

Day in day out!

@TheDA_UK @sbattrawden
3/
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This is v disturbing from @halfon4harlowMP
Could it represent a CHILD SAFEGUARDING ISSUE on a NATIONAL SCALE?
It’s clear that the CHAIR of @CommonsEd has absolutely no understanding of the significance of the #COVID19 #DeltaVariant & is a cheer leader of #COVIDIsOver idiocy!
1/9
Watch it for yourself….his entire focus is on PRE-PANDEMIC “NORMALITY” for SCHOOLS, pushing back against bubbles, any sort of restrictions & makes no mention at all of how to protect CV/CEV children, families or staff as cases rise.
@ChildrensComm @Rachel_deSouza @cv_cev
2/
His views on consent for 12-15yr olds are obvious.
Is it possible he will be able to intervene in @CMO_England’s decision?
Does he have training in advising <16yr olds on such important matters?
Has he even heard of #GillickCompetency?
@drcarolinej @vickyford @LaylaMoran
3/
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Schools back for 3 weeks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#DeltaVariant is ripping through schools.

From 16th Aug - 2nd Sept inclusive: 💥26,836 cases age 0-19💥

💔~1% will be hospitalised (268)
💔~14% will be #LongCovidKids (3757)
💔~0.01% - 0.03% will die (2 - 8) 😢

#LongCovid #COVID #BackToSchool
Some schools in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 have already been forced to close due to staff absence from #COVID19

Some classes are are half empty as children continue to pass #DeltaVariant between one another.

🛑On 16th Aug 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 recorded 477 new child cases
🛑On 2nd Sept 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 recorded 2596 new child cases
Local Authorities and @scotgov continue to reassure us that children are not transmitting #Covid19 in schools.

Apparently school pick up/drop off is the culprit.

Do we think that is true? Does #DeltaVariant have such high intelligence that it refuses to enter school buildings?
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Mr Williamson, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to contain my horror at #DfE plans for the return to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿schools this week.

Such insincere tweets are deeply offensive to anyone who’s been personally affected by serious acute #COVID, #LongCovid or been bereaved by it.
1/14
Suggesting schools “get back to a greater sense of normality…” during a pandemic of an #airborne 🦠reveals a marked lack of scientific understanding of the issues & is an utterly disingenuous way to present the situation to parents & children who deserve far better.
2/
And to those of us caring for patients to w/ #COVID19 whilst simultaneously trying to tackle the ever growing mountain of non-#COVID care (STILL in sub-optimal #PPE) it is a huge slap in the face.
3/
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1) We have been politely asking the @NHSuk to update its child #COVID19 symptom list since the end of 2020.

How can we expect families to recognise #COVID symptoms if they are not clearly listed?
We are deeply concerned.
#Backtoschool
#Longcovidkids

nhs.uk/conditions/cor…
2) @CDCgov list updated Dec 2020 is more comprehensive

Fever
Fatigue
Headache
Myalgia
Cough
Nasal congestion
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
SOB or difficulty breathing
Abdominal pain
Diarrhea
Nausea/vomiting
Poor appetite / poor feeding

cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
3) Let's compare, the @NHSEngland list alongside the #longcovidkids list.

We URGENTLY need to see the #NHS website updated before kids go #BacktoSchool2021

We know that #Delta is more transmissible.
We know that there has

#misinformation #symptoms #longcovid #FBLCK #FBLC
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Schools return soon. The European CDC & US CDC have suggested enhanced mitigations in schools due to the delta variant but the UK is going the opposite way. Why this British exceptionalism again @10DowningStreet @GavinWilliamson @CMO_England @educationgovuk? Thread 1/
So many kids around the world have missed almost 1.5 years of in-person school with terrible consequences. I’m grateful that my daughter has been in class half the time. But the lack of attention to school safety in the UK has been v troubling for me as a parent & academic. 2/
In May, masks were dropped in secondary schools. In July, infections were out of control & almost a million kids were out of school. The UK is currently an outlier amongst high income countries by not vaccinating kids under 16. Come Sept, all mitigations like masks, bubbles 3/
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1) 🇬🇧 The 8 steps of UK #LongCovid prevalence research in a nutshell - By an upset parent.
1. Child suffers disabling symptoms for over 12 months
2. GP says it is health #anxiety and standard blood tests show nothing wrong, so there can not be anything wrong.
3. #Parent has been
2) using Zoe app, but gives up logging symptoms after x months as they can't see the point anymore. No one believes they are sick anyway
4. Child has disabling symptoms for over 12 months
5. GP says children don't get #longcovid as the @govuk has told them this
3) for the last 18 months. Parent and child both dismissed as "anxious". #Child never sees a #paediatrician as GP dismisses them & paediatricians, therefore, don't see many kids with #longcovid.
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I read with interest the @thetimes article on #schools which claimed triumphantly that daily #LateralFlowTests of close #COVID contacts is as good as or better at reducing ongoing transmission & that indeed “Schools do not spread COVID”.
2/

thetimes.co.uk/article/751367…
Here is the article incase you can’t see it because it’s behind a paywall.

Have a read….
3/
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Morning @GavinWilliamson @NickGibbUK & @halfon4harlowMP - if you could put the Latin books down for a mo, there are millions of teachers, parents & secondary school pupils who’d be very interested in some answers.
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@educationgovuk @CommonsEd @KateGreenSU @LaylaMoran @NEUnion
Sadly, I suspect you won’t have any!

My guess is that you neither know or care how opening 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿schools up in Sept WITHOUT ANY MITIGATIONS for an #Airborne 🦠will affect the HUMANS forced each day to study/work INSIDE the schools, especially those who’re unvaccinated or CV/CEV.
2/
But as a Dr could I ask..

1)How many children w/ CHRONIC DEBILITATING SYMPTOMS will worry you?

2)How many VERY SICK children is too many?

3)How many SICK STAFF will stop schools functioning?

4)How you will know the number of CV/CEV children who’ve been vaccinated by Sept?
3/
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Brilliant easy to read article 👇👇👇

TL;DR
👉~14% of people who catch covid-19 end up with lasting symptoms: ~25 million people worldwide.
👉Could be big underestimate - less than 10% of infections detected - true figure could be nearer 250 million.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
👉No universally agreed definition.
👉NIHR divide #LongCovid into 4 groups: those with after-effects of ventilation; those with organ damage caused by #SARSCoV2; those with post-viral fatigue syndrome; miscellaneous group that the authors call those with long-term covid syndrome.
👉One puzzling feature: those most prone to long covid aren't those most likely to get sick from the initial infection.
👉women 30% more likely to get it than men
👉35 to 69-year-olds are the age group most often affected (ONS)
👉WHO working to agree a clinical case definition.
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1/11 Just for 1 minute, put acute #COVID & #LongCovid to one side.

How exactly do those in the #DfE, #UsForThem, #CRG & the #HartGroup intend to protect children from more educational disruption w/ a highly contagious virus whirling its way through schools across the UK?

How?
2/The ongoing educational damage done by CHOOSING NOT to adequately & effectively mitigate for an #airborne virus w/in UK schools (English esp) was completely avoidable.

IT WAS (& CONTINUES TO BE) A CHOICE, sanctioned by Gvmt AND a mostly complicit media.
3/ Our political leaders chose to follow a THEORETICAL #HerdImmunity “strategy” with a novel virus which RELIED ON unmitigated spread within young, fit parts of society & FACTORED IN that sadly some of those would also become seriously ill or die.
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1/Those of the “but there’s no significant transmission in schools” persuasion must surely now accept that whether it’s kids➡️parents or parents➡️kids, a HUGE⬆️in CASES in SCHOOL AGE KIDS & PARENTS of SCHOOL-AGE KIDS is NOT GOOD, as they’re mostly UNVACCINATED!
#WlifulNegligence
2/ Please TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY @GavinWilliamson @NickGibbUK @halfon4harlowMP & @educationgovuk.

Failure to adequately protect so many children & young adults from AVOIDABLE INFECTION after 15Ms is a completely unacceptable abuse of your power.
You cannot claim ignorance again!
3/ I promise you #PrimeMinister , I & many like me who’ve repeatedly BEGGED you to #MakeSchoolsSafe by effectively mitigating for an #Airborne 🦠,WILL NOT FORGET or FORGIVE YOU for what you’ve done!
Natural #HerdImmunity was always the plan,at least have the decency to admit it.
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1/12 How anyone who claims to care about children can read this thread & look at these figures, & still think “Oh yes, this was a good time to remove 😷s from secondary schools!”

What madness is it that has lead to pupils, staff & families being so unprotected from #COVID19?
2/ #Bolton is just 1 town, every day this week more places have found ⬆️cases of the #IndianVariant.

A local school has an outbreak, a whole yr group’s been sent home. A min of 10 children have tested +ve, so assuming they all have a mild infection, ONE could get #LongCovid.
3/ Has the #PrimeMinister decided that this is acceptable COLLATERAL DAMAGE?

Is this what the #antimask anti-scientific groups like #UsForThem, #HartGroup & the #CRG want for the children of this country?
1000s of innocent children w/ long term symptoms we don’t yet understand? Image
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1) Morning @GavinWilliamson, just reading the update from @PHE_uk @GOVUK below ⬇️.
gov.uk/government/pub…
2) Wondering how this particular bit of advice ⬇️ will play out in schools & early years settings after #Easter?

Crowded poorly ventilated classrooms w/ up to 30 kids from different households are the very essence of HIGH RISK spaces. Dining rooms/PE halls could even be worse!
3) If I’ve understood it correctly anywhere in the RED AREAS needs extra attention?

INDOORS ✅
HIGH OCCUPANCY ✅
SILENT, SPEAKING, SHOUTING, SINGING, PHYSICAL EXERTION ✅
POORLY VENTILATED ✅
& NO FACE COVERINGS ⬆️ THE RISK
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💈WOW 🤩

This school rocks!
We need to reduce #Covid_19 in transmission in schools.

Great to see this headteacher taking a proactive approach to #makeschoolssafe and going beyond the inadequate @educationgovuk guidelines.

@BBCSouthNews
#CO2monitors
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
We don't want your kids to share our story.
The only way we know how to reduce #longcovid is to avoid #COVID
Download your school pack to understand more about #longcovidkids & how to reduce risk in your school.

longcovidkids.org
#LCKSchoolpack #LCKMaskHeros
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