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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 May 5

      Health Nerd Retweeted Abir Ballan

      As one of the authors of this study, I think it's fair to say that this is not a correct interpretation of the researchhttps://twitter.com/abirballan/status/1373689805867999235 …

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      Abir Ballan @abirballan
      Risk-benefit analysis for children: "The estimated IFR is close to zero for children and younger adults" https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v4.full.pdf … Any risk from the vaccine is too much => It is UNETHICAL to conduct trials on or vaccinate children with the COVID 19 vaccine. https://www.aier.org/article/why-are-we-vaccinating-children-against-covid-19/ …
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    2. Abir Ballan‏ @abirballan May 5
      Replying to @GidMK

      You think it is unfair to interpret that children and young people have an IFR that is close to zero?

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 5
      Replying to @abirballan

      We changed that line in the final paper for a reason - have a look at the published version. It's also not correct to argue that this risk is ~literally~ zero. The risk of vaccination may be far lower than the risk of COVID-19 even for childrenhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00698-1 …

      11:18 PM - 5 May 2021
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        2. Atomsk's Sanakan‏ @AtomsksSanakan May 5
          Replying to @GidMK @abirballan

          By this logic, many of the vaccines that have saved kids lives would be unethical, because they were against pathogens that killed 'only' hundreds of kids per year in the USA. 🤦‍♂️ https://twitter.com/AtomsksSanakan/status/1390190212991565824 … https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#demographics … https://twitter.com/JHowardBrainMD/status/1389946208987324417 … https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/meas.html …pic.twitter.com/7yD9tLm81U

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        3. Arthur Foxache‏ @OldMackIsBack May 5
          Replying to @AtomsksSanakan @GidMK @abirballan

          Excellent point.

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        2. Ikhwane‏ @Ikwane May 5
          Replying to @GidMK @abirballan

          The may in your sentence might be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 5
          Replying to @Ikwane @abirballan

          Not at all. There is insufficient evidence yet to conclude anything definitively, but for older children in particular the risk from vaccination is very unlikely to surpass the 1 in 30-60,000 risk of death from COVID-19 that we identified in our paper

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