“This is a socioeconomic virus. The less you have the harder you are hit.” -Benjamin D. Hoffman, MD, FAAP Data shows COVID and MIS-C affecting Black and Hispanic children at much higher rates. We must work to end these disparities and the resulting economic impacts as well. #AAPLeads

And health inequalities, one of the very reasons we are seeing local clusters and exceptionally bad outcomes for some groups of people will just be hanging around will they? until when? When you decide to pick them back up, sometime, whenever, never 🤷‍♀️. Matt Hancock

A Level, AS Level and GCSE results will now be based on teacher-assessed grades. Students will receive the higher of their teacher-assessed grade or their moderated grade.

I've been waiting for one like this: a masterful review of Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome-Children (MIS-C) w/ #COVID19 (atypical Kawasaki disease) thelancet.com/journals/lanin… The Lancet Infectious Diseases today

#COVID19 #Taxis #BAME Blackburn with Darwen Council

Children can get coronavirus too. Parents, carers and guardians are being encouraged not to delay seeking medical help for children or young people who need it. Read more - healthierlsc.co.uk/latest-news/pa… HLSC Better Births Lancashire Resilience Forum NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust 💙 Chorley & Royal Preston MorecambeBayNHSTrust

So schools go back on 2nd Sept. I predict that the true second peak will be hitting mid to late Sept. Please do not let grandparents do the wrap around care! Looking at children as the silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2 news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… via Harvard University

It is good to know that asymptomatic cases exist amongst us, but what does that really mean? We need understand the true meaning of each individual positive. Some cases remain positive at 100+ days yet nothing I've seen suggests a culturable sample post 11 days. #COVID19

📍IMPORTANT Starbucks outbreak in South Korea 🇰🇷 reveals a lot: A #COVID19 infected 30 year old visited Starbucks for 2 hours➡️ then infected 56 others who visited. Likely related to 6 recirculating air conditioners. 2nd Floor hotspot. Suggests aerosols🧵 insight.co.kr/news/299857

This September children in the UK will return to the classroom. Read a statement by the four UK Chief Medical Officers on the reopening of schools and childcare 🔽 gov.uk/government/new… Professor Chris Whitty @CMOWales Department of Health Prof Sir Gregor Smith Scot Gov Health #BackToSchoolSafely

At what age (in coronavirus terms) does a child cease being a child and become an adult? I would say that a FE establishment is the same as a overcrowded workplace. In my opinion PPE should reflect this. Any plans to address this in Lancashire Dr. Sakthi Karunanithi 🌎🧘🏽‍♂️❤️☮️

Exactly this!👌 of course children need to be back in school, we all know this is the only way forward, but could we perhaps pay a little more attention to ventilation? We have little sway over the behaviour of children, good ventilation will make all the difference. #COVID19

So we've not heard the old 'led by the science' quoted for a while, I do wonder why 🤔. Could it be that the 'science' doesn't agree with their current plans? This Scientist (& many others) are trying to get their voices heard & it's crucial to the success of returning to school!

New BMJ paper by Trisha Greenhalgh L, Bourouiba et al Most useful is table, showing the relative risk of activities vs the same parameters identified in “A CIViC DUTY”: Crowding, Indoors, low Ventilation, Close proximity, long Duration, Unmasked, Talking/singing/Yelling

All is quiet on the Government front with regards to our current location on their response tool! Going by this we should be back in lockdown already.

CDC guidance updated to state that inhaled aerosols are the main way that COVID-19 spreads andrew arcand Joan Cheng 鄭 瓊𤥃 cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

100% this!! Why are people so fixated on death?? Covid changes lives, some people are never the same again. Whether someone dies or survives is not the only issue here!!

Everyone keeps talking about covid becoming endemic, but as I listen to the conversation, it’s becoming more & more clear to me that very few of you know what “endemic” means. So here’s a thread on how pandemics end.