Thankfully, we don’t let facts get in the way of ‘good’ policy.
With open schools and no masks for ages 1-15 in Sweden, there were zero COVID deaths among its 1.8M children during first wave. Teachers had lower risk than average of other professions. So, we knew early on that schools are safe without masks. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670 …https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1428347738798891008 …
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Edmund what do you think is driving this? It no longer makes sense to me how a large subset of medical experts can ignore empirical data and continue to double down on masks?
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And yet, New Zealand just closed all schools over Covid Case.
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How long will the rest of the world ignore Sweden?
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They’re just gonna pretend that everyone in Sweden, Florida, and Texas all died in may of 2020
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There are some serious allegations in this article that authors of that njem letter “deliberately left out key data that contradicted their conclusion”https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/critics-slam-letter-prestigious-journal-downplayed-covid-19-risks-swedish …
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Allegations in this smear piece has been refuted. Both by Swedish central statistics and by L in NEJM. Science journo Vogel tries very hard to make him seem suspect for asking Tegnell to help in getting cause of death stats that wasn't available then. Now it is.
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First wave wasn’t Delta.
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