1.🇾đŸ‡ȘSchool children don't spread infection. We didn't close schools, because they didn't need to be closed.
—Swedish Minister of Education

109,983 children with confirmed #COVID19
140 with #PIMS_TS #MISC
12 children deadđŸ•Żïž
2,171 schools with outbreaks

10-30% with #LongCovidKids
2. 🇾đŸ‡ȘWhy Sweden doesn't close schools?

Three faces of Tegnell:

1. To Swedish media: Children don't spread the virus
2. To foreign media: Parents would stay at home and it's 20% of the workforce
3. Leaked emails: Children are good spreaders and we can reach herd immunity faster
4. Tegnell to foreign media:

“If children don’t go to school their parents need to stay at home and we know of economic calculations that have been given to us that then about 20% of the workforce disappears from the Swedish work market”
▶42:40 min.
7. Ludvigsson, Swedish pediatrician accused of suppressing data on #CovidKids deaths in NEJM is cited worldwide in many documents on safe schools.
Damage done extends well beyond Sweden.
đŸ§”đŸ‘‡ https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1367101599269588996
8. An access to the truth by a well informed electorate is a fundamental condition for democracy. People who defend democracy by revealing the truth about the pandemic in Sweden are harassed to such an extent that some of them had to leave Sweden. https://twitter.com/KeithMEWAS/status/1367773199874850816
9. An association @covid19skola that collects and publishes statistics on #COVIDkids #LongCovidKids https://covid19-skola-och-barn.se/  as there is no official statistics is harassed today in one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden @Aftonbladet https://twitter.com/covid19skola/status/1379032092537987080
11.“This is not a virus you want to be infected with”.
The ongoing study in Bergen shows that more than half of those who have had #COVID19 suffers from long-term effects.
“It looks scary inside”
"Children and young people should avoid being infected" https://twitter.com/JoannaTeglund/status/1373393856365002755
12. We have known for more than a year
https://www.france24.com/en/20200402-for-some-survivors-coronavirus-complications-can-last-a-lifetime
that #COVID19 can cause severe long-term damage to the lungs, heart, brain and other organs – and that for some patients these complications may be permanent. https://twitter.com/JoannaTeglund/status/1375839093112848387
13. Experts are raising the alarm about a new virus variant that appears to be infecting school-age children and younger adults. The highly contagious #B117 is on the rise in Europe and more and more young people are being hospitalized as cases rise. https://twitter.com/LongCovidKids/status/1367564094644097026
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