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Claims about changes to Pfizer vaccine for children miss important details. (16:48:08.203282+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/claims-about-changes-pfizer-vaccine-children-miss-important-details/

Nurses’ mental health: “Most people in the NHS, they are sad.” (2021, November 23). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-59104738

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Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉🔜 MFF. (2021, November 21). If you’re wondering what difference a booster makes. Https://t.co/858ZpST7Kh [Tweet]. @sailorrooscout. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1462441020948459525

Paul Mainwood. (2021, November 18). Holy guacamole. Https://t.co/mIcWJMHdHJ [Tweet]. @PaulMainwood. https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1461337249950404625

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Jeffrey Barrett. (2021, October 19). Proportion of AY.4.2 (now on http://covid19.sanger.ac.uk) has been steadily increasing in England, which is a pattern that is quite different from other AY lineages. Several of them rose when there was still Alpha to displace, but none has had a consistent advantage vs other Delta. Https://t.co/mD5gQzKxgV [Tweet]. @jcbarret. https://twitter.com/jcbarret/status/1450408485829718039

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2021, November 3). Good @NatGeo article by @Ecquis on the growing AY.4.2 variant in the UK with lots of great experts explaining it. And a little bit of me too! At its current growth rate, it will probably become dominant in UK by the end of the year. Https://t.co/X9O9kbew2L [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1455899379475361795

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@TigressEllie: Sadly 😥 https://t.co/NsVj5GImxS announced on 10th Oct a child between 5-9 has died with Covid in England. The total now:…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 November 2021, from https://twitter.com/TigressEllie/status/1449404432656084993?s=20

Kale, S. (2021, November 11). Chakras, crystals and conspiracy theories: How the wellness industry turned its back on Covid science. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/injecting-poison-will-never-make-you-healthy-how-the-wellness-industry-turned-its-back-on-covid-science

Stephen Reicher. (2021, November 10). Look at this quite shameful graph (from Bob Hawkins) on Covid catch up spending per pupil. All four UK nations provide a few hundred pounds per pupil while others provide thousands. But to make things still worse... Https://t.co/Keprj2qzWN [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1458380613346541576

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Colin Davis. (2021, October 15). Today marks a milestone of sorts: The number of children under 14 who’ve tested positive for Covid in England just passed one million (1,003,787 to be precise). 🧵 https://t.co/C58QwpvJrk [Tweet]. @ProfColinDavis. https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/1449046813877706753

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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 2). interestingly the Singapore Health Minister also mentions “boosting through mild infections”—A concept that is currently generating much furore in the UK in the wake of the release of the JCVI minutes on child vaxx decisions 1/n [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1455445587910922240

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Dr Daya Sharma 😷🥽💨🧼💉💉. (2021, October 30). Some of the UK JCVI deliberations are deeply disturbing, eg arguing against childhood vax so that they can get infected & boost immunity in adults. Also imply that vax doesn’t have an individual benefit! 🤯 How much of this warped thinking is present in Australia? #COVID19Aus https://t.co/o887d2etcW [Tweet]. @DrDayaSharma. https://twitter.com/DrDayaSharma/status/1454418003429183492

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, October 30). as the fallout from the JCVI minutes build, it’s worth considering that the corresponding U.S. body ACIP has been live streaming its meetings on YouTube... Transparency helps reduce faulty reasoning...we should have learned that lesson with the very first lockdown, no? [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1454502337368764421

Dr. Thomas Wilckens. (2021, October 31). JCVI facing calls from within for greater transparency over decision-making https://buff.ly/3GwVqCZ JCVI has been criticised for failing to publish detailed minutes, modelling and analysis behind its decision to advise vaccinating all over-16s in Britain #covid19 #coronavirus https://t.co/nWbnvci7LI [Tweet]. @Thomas_Wilckens. https://twitter.com/Thomas_Wilckens/status/1454798820156530689

Alasdair Munro. (2021, October 31). There is nothing new about this idea at all In fact, this is one of the reasons we don’t vaccinate children against chicken pox in the UK It is a totally reasonable thing to include as a point of discussion https://nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/chickenpox-vaccine-questions-answers/ 2/ https://t.co/oCrf0nX5rc [Tweet]. @apsmunro. https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1454792162000916481

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