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[Joy Henderson (she/her) 🇵🇸 @Joyhenderson78]

Are people seriously making the argument against N95s for kids because they're "uncomfortable"?

Do you know what else is uncomfortable for kids?

Pants.

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

But entering the hospital WITH Covid versus for Covid isn’t a relevant distinction if the hospital doesn’t have the beds or providers needed to care for its patients.

And the distinction isn't always clear even to providers. Nor does it matter practically.https://t.co/JZybybF41c

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

It is NOT inevitable that our kids will get Covid. The tools exist, including comfortable kid-sized N95 masks, HEPA filters, to prevent this.
Some opine that kids N95 masks are too hard to wear, are harmful, etc.
Let me ask you: do these kids look like they're uncomfortable?

[Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone]

@IrfanDhalla @GovCanHealth @CMA_Docs @CanPaedSociety Maybe the @CanPaedSociety should explain to Canadian parents that kids have been protected by the measures in place, just like everyone else, and that when covid spreads unchecked like in the US it’s a top 10 killer of children: #6 cause of death for 5-11, #7 for 0-4. Not a cold.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

About that 5 day thing...

[Julia Hanigsberg @Hanigsberg]

Super 🧵! It’s not that data science and understanding data is that hard, it’s that we are often in a rush and don’t take the time to analyze what we are seeing & sometimes data is represented to deliberately mislead. Good explainer of absolute vs relative risk.

[Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @FurnessColin]

A lot of people (especially some MDs) make a lot of extreme claims about child mental health and schools.

But this one is an expert. I really like listening to experts.

[Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social @BillHanage]

This is likely true for cases, but likely not so true for severe outcomes if exposures of those at most risk lag (as they have consistently since the first wave)

[Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) @jeremyfaust]

<Breaking>

We have added an ICU module to our Covid-19 Hospital Capacity Circuit Breaker Dashboard.

🟧=12 states projected to exceed ICU capacity in next 7 days unless conditions change.
🟪=18 unsustainable (headed towards orange category)

Explore: https://t.co/0dXy6kGxGB

[Justin Morgenstern @First10EM]

This is why healthcare workers were so upset about the constant talk of omicron being 'mild'
We knew this was coming, and yet again, no one wanted to listen to scientific expertise

[Shawna Gawreluck Insert $8 here @ShawnaGofABPoli]

The sheer number of parents on community Facebook pages trying to find RATs thinking a negative result allows their kid to go to school on Monday tells me everything I need to know about how people misunderstand the statement “symptomatic children should not attend school”.

[Eric Ball @DrEricBall]

It's amazing how many of these little kids with COVID are presenting with croup-like symptoms. Whoever said this was a 'mild strain' was not a pediatrician.

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

When they say: “We need to learn to live with COVID”

What they really mean is: Let’s just give up on protecting health workers, essential workers, People with Disabilities, elders, children, unhoused people, immunocompromised people & the vulnerable...from the harms of COVID.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

And not only Finland. Yet another reason I worry about all this “let it rip” omicron talk, with premature claims about it causing mild illness, especially for children…some attached tweets for thought https://t.co/W2qDBCsZJZ

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

We don’t want to face a situation a year from now in which all this happy talk today turns into a generation of kids with neurocognitive impairments, diabetes, or other chronic conditions. There’s still a lot we don’t know, and another reason we need to do better vaccinating kids

[Dr. Barb King @DrBarbKing]

Over 90% in ICU are unvaccinated

[CDC @CDCgov]

New @CDCMMWR shows 2 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was 91% effective against MIS-C, a serious condition associated with #COVID19. Among critically ill patients requiring life support, all were unvaccinated. More: https://t.co/7tRJ6oyh0r.

[Abraar Karan @AbraarKaran]

You need N95 masks to interact with the President, the Vice President, and their spouses. Why?

Because N95 provide better source control— meaning if anyone were infectious & it was missed on a rapid test, there’s little chance they could infect Biden

https://t.co/UfPmGD2yXU