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Hi all, I've deleted a series of tweets today because I worry about their impact. I will restate the thread with zero snark or attempts at wryness, and without anything OTHER than the point I want to get across.
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Hey remember all of the posturing and data free statements from major Ontario hospitals?
This is why I wanted data.
The pandemic associated with a SIGNIFICANT DECREASE in self harm and overdose for kids and young adults.
Thank you, authors!
https://t.co/DwEXg6jCbI
A hospital signing a declaration:
Kids "shouldnt... bear the brunt of ... mitigation", & "schools should be fully open"... Otherwise, "lack of socialization... will create significant stress" and parents might have to "miss work and important family income."
Same hospital:
Just updated this story: the number of patients at Southlake hospital in Newmarket has increased nearly SIX-FOLD in the past two weeks https://t.co/lFSARR9ULB
“Airborne” is a hard concept to grasp: The fact you can get Covid from someone breathing the same air — but who left the room TWO HOURS AGO. Definitely plenty of people who felt safe without a mask because they were the only one in the store, for example.
DATA SCIENCE:
COVID data by age.
This is very tricky, so please follow along.
I'll post the graph used as evidence of KID CRISIS first, then the exact same data presented as it's wielded as evidence of NO KID CRISIS.
Ontario COVID hospitalizations:
Kids are in crisis!
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Not to directly contradict a major society in Canada, but BC has not been experiencing a spike in suicidality, emergency mental health presentations, or severe MH admission rates during periods of school closure.
In Feb to May 2021, with schools fully open here, yes, yes we did.
@LaurenPelley@sickkids@CHEO@mch_childrens@KingstonHSC The myth that kids are invincible fortresses to Covid is no longer debatable. So disturbing that it takes a trajectory of cases like this for this concern to be legitimized for so many.
In this important debate about children, child and adolescent mental health experts were not invited nor participated, and bold claims were made about mental health, educational, and developmental harms to kids.
A real missed opportunity.