In early 2020, the situation was dire. America was rerouting 3M N95's away from Canada. Chinese masks which Trudeau thought his govt had ordered were being auctioned off to even higher bidders on a Chinese tarmac. Canada was about to run out of masks and respirators to

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People who have followed my threads will not be surprised. 🇦🇺 : strong drop in youth suicide following the onset of the pandemic. The fearmongers and "experts" (quotes intentional) were wrong, and proper statistical analysis, principled suicidology, and skepticism was right.

let me remind you: #LongCOVID is life-changing and incurable. LongCOVID is caused by #COVID. We still have no way of predicting who will emerge unscathed from a COVID infection. The only way to avoid getting LongCOVID is to not get COVID. Let me also remind you that while 4/

"kids are headed back to their classrooms—just as COVID nears a fresh, late-summer peak. Somehow, 4 yrs into a pandemic that everyone now knows spreads through the air, most schools have done little to nothing to ensure their students will breathe safely." scientificamerican.com/article/kids-a…

As Covid surges, the high price of viral denial: Excellent analysis in The Tyee this week on the state of Covid in Canada & the long-term toll & stress on individuals due to lack of mitigations thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/…

If parents don’t fight to protect children from Covid in schools, nobody else will Tess Finch-Lees Sept 2024 archive.ph/2024.09.05-093… 🧵 #LongCovidKids #WeAllShareIndoorAir #BackToSchool2024 #CleanAirNow

This is the story of 16-year-old Cara who stopped wearing a mask after being bullied at school, bringing COVID home to her immunocompromised mother, who tragically died as a result. These stories must be told and we must learn from them. independent.ie/opinion/commen…

Another example is Germany. Average sick days per year per worker more than doubled. Uptrend starts in 2021 just like in Norway and many other countries. If this remains at this level (or gets worse), on a carreer of 45 years this implies an average of 450 extra working days (=

Largest prospective study of #LongCovid in children and teens with 3-year follow-up thelancet.com/journals/eclin… by La Campo - Anna Camporesi and colleagues —significant, long-lasting impact —increased risk of autoimmune diseases —reduction of risk with vaccination/boosters, especially among teens

UPDATED: #BC #SARSCoV2 variants. Of 227 samples from 8/11 - 8/17: LB.1.*: 8.4% (〰️ 8.3%/300) KP.2.*: 11% (⬇️ 16.7%) KP.3.*: 64.8% (〰️ 64.7%) KP.3.1.1.*: 47.1% (⬆️ 43.7%) anarchodelphis.tumblr.com/BCVariants #COVID19

This is a critical read to understand why we need clean indoor air in schools (and actually everywhere).

10.6% of exposed household contacts developed symptomatic COVID within 14 days of exposure to asymptomatic children *7.8%* of *asymptomatic* SARS-CoV-2–infected children developed long COVID (3-month follow-up) (Was this study covered by 🇨🇦CBC?) 👇 cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study…

Letter: School in the time of COVID-19 On this we can all agree: "Sick children can't learn. Sick teachers can't teach." (Amanda Hu) 🙏An excellent article by Dr. Lyne Filiatrault newwestrecord.ca/local-news/let… via The Record

🚨‘6/77 asymptomatic SARSCoV2 infected children during a 3-month follow-up developed long COVID 👉🏽The finding is noteworthy as likely more than 30% of all COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic, & asymptomatic infections are presumed to be benign- especially those in children’

Long Covid in Children Not "strikingly rare" Not even "normally rare" But common and with long-lasting impact