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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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Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻. (2021, October 30). Mass infection of kids with a virus less than 2 years old is not ethical, not moral, not scientifically evidenced, not socially just & medically risky. There’s no good argument for this. And no, boosting population immunity to protect the adults is not a valid argument. #Childism [Tweet]. @Dr2NisreenAlwan. https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1454498829403922440

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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

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD. (2021, October 30). Many thanks @FWhitfield for hosting me this Saturday AM @CNN In case it’s helpful, I’ve prepared an informal ‘fact sheet’ on COVID in children and COVID vaccines in 5-11 age group. Highlights attached...feel free to RT or repurpose the information [Tweet]. @PeterHotez. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1454489603013062656

‘Zero Covid absolutists’ accuse JCVI of being ‘anti-vax’ for considering herd immunity in children • USMAIL24. (2021, November 1). USMAIL24. https://usmail24.com/zero-covid-absolutists-accuse-jcvi-of-being-anti-vax-for-considering-herd-immunity-in-children/

Jonathan Howard. (2021, October 29). @karol @GovRonDeSantis @nypost Life went on except for those who died. Https://t.co/ZA52To2uXL [Tweet]. @JHowardBrainMD. https://twitter.com/JHowardBrainMD/status/1454087422493478926

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, October 30). Does there maybe need to be more distinction between points raised for discussion and any actual decision? Without knowing about votes etc., it’s maybe a bit strong to say ‘JCVI wanted x...’? I’ve sat on many bodies with minutes documenting positions I disagreed with [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1454488759785897987

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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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 1). 2/2 from the paper ‘We speculate that the extraordinarily high antibody titers observed in vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections may lead to subsequent long-term protection in those individuals.’ [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1455104597454954497

Deepti Gurdasani. (2021, November 1). No- the statement explicitly talks about infection in children being a ‘booster’ to adults i.e. Children infecting adults to protect them against... Infection!🤔 I don’t think there’s any level of cognitive gymnastics that could justify this or make sense of it. [Tweet]. @dgurdasani1. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1455106192112500736

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Of course now the pendulum, for at least some, has swung the other direction and we now talk about over-scheduling our children.

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Michael Mina on Twitter: “With all the news of vaccines & immunity, did you know measles infections destroy immunity and cause ‘Immune Amnesia’, increasing risk of all other infections Our research in ‘15 & ‘19 discovered this & the abbreviated story is written up nicely here: 1/ https://t.co/t5DKoQljxM” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 7, 2021, from https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1435037668027641861

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Jeremy Howard. (2021, August 29). I’ve been analyzing the UK covid data and I’ve just discovered something shocking. Cases in chidrens in England have just smashed all-time highs. Nearly double what they’ve ever been before. And rising VERY rapidly. Schools are about to reopen. With far fewer restrictions. Https://t.co/rNhW4U98BR [Tweet]. @jeremyphoward. https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1432118975060594691