Michael Absoud
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Paediatrician @EvelinaLondon ,clinical academic @KingsCollegeLon , Neurodevelopmental,epilepsy, long term conditions, mental health:Views personal #Recovery4Kids
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It’s time to end the myth that restrictions for kids are protections
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SARS-CoV-2 risk increases exponentially with age—
Yet over 2 years we restricted children’s lives more than adults..
Let’s normalise putting
#childrenfirst
and
#StopIsolatingKids
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Cancelling children’s activities so adults can enjoy theirs — is a poorly thought out long term health intervention
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If you don’t like the answers, delete the tweet— is that how it works?
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This is actual misinformation from the AAP— it is categorically false
If caregivers are wearing masks, does that harm kids’ language development? No. There is no evidence of this. And we know even visually impaired children develop speech and language at the same rate as their peers.
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Asking children to protect adults- may be the most bizzare global societal stance that has somehow been normalised...
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So the balance of trade-offs is for children to carry the burden?
Again....
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Omicron has shown us that sChOoLs being the main drivers of transmission—
as probably the biggest myth of pandemic
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How long should children be denied the right to play and socialise
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How on Earth did we get here that the nation is debating keeping children out of schools as the way out of the pandemic??
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Science= amazing medical counter measures
Restrictions on kids and quarantining healthy children— is not science...
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I find it remarkable that a section of society not rejoicing that children very rarely ill with COVID compared to other viruses and much less infectious than adults
Instead trying prove the opposite!
Why??
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With every new variant— there have been early reports saying it’s relatively worse for children
Even with Delta, we showed that this isn’t true...
Time to stop fear messaging for kids
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So the Omicron London wave has happened *during* school holidays
Time to end the myth that schools drive hospital admissions
Time to recalibrate what’s necessary for kids
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Covid has been de-risked..
Time to de-risk indirect harms to kids
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For the new year— let’s consider scrapping contact tracing for school kids and quarantines for well children
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Lest we forget— UK July 2020, schools didn’t open but you could:
go out to eat in a restaurant, grab a drink at your local pub, stay at a hotel, visit a library, attend a place of worship, get your haircut.
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It’s a completely nonsense— that any college/university student..
Needs to do online lectures, routinely test or mask…
It’s their third academic pandemic year.
Lets prioritise young people for a change.
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Children’s Hospitals🏴 are incredibly busy (more so than busy winters already)
But not with Covid- which forms a v small proportion of work
Mainly other viruses/ infections, mental health presentations+++, catch up elective work
Sadly more costs of restricting children’s lives
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This is Beautiful—
Chris Whitty
“Some of the evidence to the inquiry on the precautionary principle misunderstands it quite profoundly”
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Are we going to isolate hundreds of thousand of well kids every time we have a new variant?
Especially those in exam years...
The uncertainty and worry is something children don’t need now
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Find it remarkable that easing of restrictions 🌎 happens in adults before kids—
Time to safeguard children’s wellbeing, rights &
#StopIsolatingKids
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Professor Sir Andy Pollard today on the need to move away from mass testing of well kids in Schools👇🏽
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Stricter Restrictions for children compared to adults
What does that say about our society?
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Zero Covid ideology has normalised asking kids to carry an uneven burden for Covid control—
Time to end policies dressed up as science...
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A return to asking lots of well children to quarantine — is not safeguarding their wellbeing
#StopIsolatingKids
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We are still asking 🇬🇧 well children to repeatedly test to go to school—
time to end policy &
#StopIsolatingKids
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It’s precautionary not to cancel school children’s Christmas parties, plays, choirs & concerts
Especially when adults Xmas celebrations ongoing
Kids have carried a massive burden of the pandemic already...
#StopIsolatingKids
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School restrictions should NEVER be tougher than those for the rest of society
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Talking about masks in schools is an utterly ridiculous notion
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“Two years ago, progressives critical of the government’s handling of the pandemic took to calling the UK ‘Plague Island’
Once the dust had settled, the UK was in the middle of the pack for pandemic mortality”
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Education disruption:
- at the end of September all adults will have had chance to be double vaxed
- we should move away from mass asymptomatic testing well children-
and towards clinically informed testing for symptoms/ unwell stay home
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I find it bizzare that stay at home scientists— think COVID is anywhere near a top 20 concern for children…
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The most striking feature of pandemic—
is that voices of children & young people...
have not been truly considered
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SHOCKING to see MSM still platform iSAGE — now allowing them their own form of revisionism, and denying their role in polarising society…
Political activism should not be dressed up as science advice
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Find it incredible that boosted adults calling for restrictions for primary school kids (5-11 year olds)...
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Misrepresenting direct impact of Covid on kids—
whilst minimising long term indirect impacts
Is not safeguarding or supporting children
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Let’s be clear
Restrictions on children are not “public health measures”
As few loud voices suggest
Neither is fear based science messaging
Let’s reassure and support kids
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Whilst boosted adults debate 💋 under mistletoe 🎄
Children’s plays, nativity, concerts and choirs are cancelled...
Without batting an eyelid
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Zero Covid. Zero Credibility. Jeremy Hunt in July 2020. No words.
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Pointing out obvious indirect harms to children is not minimising Covid
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A vaccinated adult population with a booster roll out
Yet we still blaming children...
Children’s rights have never been more important- a long way to go
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Devastating piece. Devastating.
The anxious generation — what’s bothering Britain’s schoolchildren?
“most fragile, inadequately prepared and unhappy group of Year 13 students ever to collect A-level results.”
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Children are at very low risk of COVID
Variant or no variant!
It’s time this is celebrated so they can be supported
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Children in UK are the most tested age group for the virus
Yet by far the least affected
A sign of the times we live in..
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It’s time for a policy change 🇬🇧
Stop testing healthy kids
Testing children without Covid-19 symptoms is disrupting their education and should be stopped, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has warned.
Read more 👇
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Cancelling school children’s Christmas parties, plays, and choirs
It is justified so adults can enjoy theirs
It’s not like kids have carried a massively disproportionate burden of pandemic..
#StopIsolatingKids
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Time to find an alternative for children isolating and out of school if they are contacts of Covid cases
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unions in England backing government to enforce masks in class for the summer- whatever next???
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UK experience delta variant
12383 cases
Only 1% hospital admissions
Of which 2/3 had no jabs
22% one jab
2% fully vaxed
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FT on why elimination is not possible
“border closures and draconian lockdowns simply postpone the moment when Covid-19 will inevitably become endemic in a population while limiting citizen’s freedom”
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Adults projecting fear to kids—
Isn’t great science or health messaging...
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Those going in to work— in solidarity with secondary school children 🇬🇧 let’s wear face coverings 8 hours/day
Particularly ministers..
#MaskLikeAKid
until Jan 26th
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How have we normalised calling for stricter restrictions on children compared to rest of society?
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A truly incredible story— a mother who reviews this data in her own personal time, and yet seems to be more knowledgeable about Covid deaths in children than most academics and public health officials working with Covid-19 👇🏽
Response from the study's author... Really frustrating that these issues weren't identified by the CDC, prior to using the data in their vaccine authorization meetings.
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We over did it with school closures...
And we are over doing it with restrictions for children...
Time to put
#ChildrenFirst
#StopIsolatingKids
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It also does a huge disservice to all the literature on visual impairment out there— and how to support children with disability.
Utterly shocking
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A morale failure
Rich countries vaccinating million of 12-15 year olds
Whilst millions of over 60s and health workers waiting for 1st dose
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@VPrasadMDMPH
Find it remarkable that North America still going on about mandating restrictions on children’s lives
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Dear,
@AmerAcadPeds
— please delete this tweet. It risks undermining child health in a BIG way
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It’s absolutely ok to say that:
Risk to children from Covid is extremely small
Let’s put children first
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Indirect effects of Covid on children are so significant
That if were due to infectious disease will be getting headlines
Eating disorders, tics, sleep, worries, reduction of therapies to those with neurodev and physical needs
Let’s prioritise recovery
#StopIsolatingKids
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The 🏴 Deputy chief medical officer today on kids and masks in class
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Children are resilient to SARS-CoV-2 (an under investigated aspect)
But are much less resilient to the indirect effects of Covid pandemic
#StopIsolatingKids
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It’s time for science to move away from a hierarchical, fear inducing, self-virtuous model— to engaging society again
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When society exaggerates risk of SARS-CoV-2 for kids,
It’s Children’s wellbeing which is impacted most.
It’s time to validate the fact that we’ve overdone it with our pandemic policies on kids..
and start planning
#Recovery4Kids
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1 in 18 secondary school kids absent due to being a possible Covid contact
Imagine If 1 in 18 adults were isolated!
It’s not ok-
#StopIsolatingKids
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Heartbreaking to have it confirmed today—
The only modelling the treasury did on Children..
Was the impact of school closures on the economy because of parents ability to work.
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Ramping up the fear on young children has consequences....
It’s not precautionary to grossly exaggerate impacts of Covid in kids—
It has harmful impacts
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Boosted adults shouldn’t be demanding kids shoulder more responsibility—
It’s time to
#StopIsolatingKids
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I worry that calling for restrictions for more restrictions on kids compared to adults in society is becoming normalised
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Dear Dr
@dgurdasani1
,
Polite reminder to please stop misrepresenting others views.
Yours sincerely,
The scientific community
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Children rights have gone backwards maybe 3 decades— a crisis reveals society’s priorities
A 12-year-old autistic girl has been barred from moving to New Zealand - and being reunited with her family - because the country's immigration policies reject people with disabilities or illnesses which may burden the health system
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So great to see
@BallouxFrancois
advising gov
Productive discussion today on the latest Omicron situation with international experts
@mlipsitch
,
@bencowling88
,
@mvankerkhove
and
@BallouxFrancois
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I find it bizarre that we are still using resources to count SARS-CoV-2 cases in kids—
Time to consider resources to support childrens’ wellbeing...
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Quarantines for healthy kids is not a mitigation
It’s a severe restriction
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Zero Covid scientists naming and shaming NHS workers for not masking…
Absolutely incredible
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The emergency for kids is not Covid
It is restrictive adult policies which still ask well children to stay home
#StopIsolatingKids
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Find it hard to believe it’s taken over 2 years— for discussion on indirect harms of Covid policies on kids wellbeing to be mainstream
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@TracyBethHoeg
Politics dressed up as science, kids caught in middle:
1. Exaggerating direct harms of Covid for kids
2. Underplaying negative impacts of masks
3. Exaggerating role of Schools in transmission
4. Underplaying impact of fear for kids
5. Exaggerating effectiveness of masking kids
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Apparently asking well kids to stay home—
are protective measures not restrictions...
2 years on
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Why do other countries find it difficult that the UK advocates for more evidence, data and trials in kids?
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We’ve overdone it 🌎 in restricting Children’s lives—
With some irreversible lifecourse outcomes..
If we can’t put children first now, then when?
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Kids— last to have restrictions removed, and first to have them mandated....
How is this still happening...
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One day memory B-cells and T-cells will get the respect they deserve
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Adults should not ask children to protect them
.
@GovKathyHochul
is at a school in San Juan, Puerto Rico with AFT president
@rweingarten
handing out backpacks to students. She has a reception later tonight days after her Election Day victory.
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🇬🇧 >87% adults double vaxed and >5 million (of 30) had third jab
Yet society still blaming the 13 million children...
Time to support and invest in kids
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✅ Time to reassure kids— in-person schooling is not a luxury
❌ quarantines for contacts
❌ bubbles
❌ school onsite testing
❌ staggering school start times
✅ max access to therapies, play and social interaction
✅ invest in staff
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