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1. “It is, alas, a fact of the disease that it is readily transmissible between children and adults"
Boris Johnson
This fact was not accepted as part of the evidence base used to justify opening schools. In their August letter, backing the government’s plans to open schools... https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1306265254666678273
Boris Johnson
This fact was not accepted as part of the evidence base used to justify opening schools. In their August letter, backing the government’s plans to open schools... https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1306265254666678273
2. ...the Chief Medical Officers said,
“Current international evidence suggests transmission of #COVID19 from children of school age to parents or other adult family members is relatively rare...”
They admit the evidence base is weak but rather than err on the side of caution... https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1304010738479046656
“Current international evidence suggests transmission of #COVID19 from children of school age to parents or other adult family members is relatively rare...”
They admit the evidence base is weak but rather than err on the side of caution... https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1304010738479046656
3. ... they gambled, backing the government’s plans, which were based on faulty assumptions.
The PM has admitted children “readily” transmit the virus to adults. How long before the government admits it has made a mistake on airborne transmission of aerosol particles? https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1304120806943928329
The PM has admitted children “readily” transmit the virus to adults. How long before the government admits it has made a mistake on airborne transmission of aerosol particles? https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1304120806943928329
4. There’s growing evidence to suggest masks reduce transmission risk and protect the wearer from infection. We need to learn from other countries and implement a masks for all policy in UK schools if we are to have any chance of keeping them open during a pandemic. https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/1306170966964408321
5. More research on the potential of masks to reduce the impact of the #COVID19 pandemic. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913
6. And this is the latest research which evidences what the Prime Minister said earlier today. https://twitter.com/drtomfrieden/status/1304820085735989253
7. Here’s what the country was being told as recently as 11 August. Health minister Edward Argar being interviewed on Sky.
8. And of course there was the Gavin Williamson statement that preempted a Public Health England report on the risk of transmission in schools and the role children play in transmission.
How has this all gone so badly wrong? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53718066
How has this all gone so badly wrong? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53718066
