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The Open Schools movement has been oddly silent about variants. Leave it to @TracyBethHoeg to broach the topic by falsely suggesting this article shows B117's "severity" is the same as Covid's. It doesn't.
In fact, the article doesn't discuss severity, it compares symptoms.
In fact, the article doesn't discuss severity, it compares symptoms.
The first clue the article isn't about severity but about compatibility of symptoms comes, strangely enough, from the title: "Changes in Symptomology, Reinfection and Transmissibility".
The article is quite clear about its aims with respect to symptoms: it is to determine whether there is a need to reassess, because of variants, how to presumptively diagnose Covid on the basis of symptoms.
It is also clear from the methodology of the study that severity of symptoms was not part of the included data which was gotten from a Symptom Tracker App which logs *symptoms*. The user reports "any symptoms".
Here are the Inputs of the Tracker.
In fact, the authors of the study are clear in the study's inability to report on severity as they point out the more severely ill are less likely to self-report (use the App).
Finally, a simple word search within the document itself shows the word "severity" appears 5 times. Four of those occurances are in the *titles* of articles that appear in the *footnotes* section. The other is in the introduction.
Here are the remaining four instances of "severity" appear in footnoted titles.
I informed @TracyBethHoeg of the issue. Guess what happened?
This may have been a tedious way to prove what the article isn't about but I wanted to make clear how *obvious* it was that the article isn't about severity because it is important to know the deceptions people will engage in the push to Open Schools.
I don't say that lightly.
I don't say that lightly.
Adding this here because, as usual, @justlikekevin adds an astute observation: that this study might not even be about B117 at all given that the authors don't know anything about the proportion of App users that had B117 as opposed to wild type. https://twitter.com/justlikekevin/status/1383623003041267717
