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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

      It is incredibly frustrating to see people using low death rates from COVID-19 in younger age groups to argue that we can relax all restrictions as long as we protect the elderly without putting forward CONCRETE PROPOSALS about how to do that 1/n

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

      2/n I agree that protecting the elderly will probably reduce the overall death burden. I am a co-author on a study that demonstrates this exact point!https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v4 …

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

      3/n The problem is, what we've seen from around the world is that it is REALLY HARD to protect elderly people while relaxing all restrictions because (unsurprisingly) they are a part of society too

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

      4/n Most of the proposals are limited to some vague hand-waving about aged care, but we demonstrated that even relatively young people were at a pretty high risk from COVID-19pic.twitter.com/7saAXL2rkK

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

      5/n If we really want to reduce the death rate from COVID-19, it's not as important if really large numbers of 20 year olds get infected (although this is still obviously not ideal!) but even a relatively small % of 60 year olds drives up deaths substantially

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

      6/n People who are pushing for re-opening everything on the basis of "protect older populations" should first describe how we can prevent people aged 60+ from having risky contact with the rest of society

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

          7/n Because if the last 6 months have shown us anything, it's that stopping older people from getting COVID-19 is REALLY NOT EASY Saying "protect the elderly" doesn't cut it

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

          8/n And, of course, this is ignoring any impacts aside from death If there are substantial chronic impacts in the younger population - a definite possibility - then the situation gets even more complicated

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Sep 2020

          9/n I've written about potential long-term impacts even for young people, they are a real worry and potentially enormously problematic even if the death rate is lowhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/jul/13/as-covid-19-persists-around-the-world-death-is-not-the-only-outcome-to-fear …

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        1. Thomas Crow‏ @scicrow 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          I feel like a lot of people really don't understand the exponential growth of viruses. They can't conceive that the only difference between a few odd cases and thousands infected is a couple of weeks free reign.

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        1. Brussels cyclo-pedestrian‏ @bXLpedestrian 16 Sep 2020
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          And even if we *could* do that, it essentially means locking them away from society, including their own children and grandchildren, for years. What sort of a plan is that?

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        2. Winnetka California‏ @WinnetkaCA 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Sixty year olds are still required to go to work. They don’t qualify for unemployment benefits if they just stop working in order to protect themselves. Workplaces aren’t required to give them separate spaces free from younger people. How are 60+ populations protected?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @WinnetkaCA

          Yes

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        1. Gale  💉 💉 AZ‏ @ExC__Gale 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Precisely. Because those who are elderly and most vulnerable are also the most likely to need in-person support from younger people. Where does the "steel ring of protection" end?

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        1. Nicola Shelton (part-time prof) #YesVax #YesMask‏ @drnjshelton 16 Sep 2020
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          the assumption that those under 60+ are not at risk is erroneous: 37% of #shielding clinically extremely vulnerable group are aged under 60 and more than half are aged under 70. There are additionally far more people under 70 identified as clinically vulnerable, same risk as 70+

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        1. Steve Blake‏ @SteveEpiGroupie 16 Sep 2020
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          Spot on.

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