Less mixing between children due to the lockdowns could have caused a drop in immunity to infections such as Strep A, a leading expert has suggested. Sky News has more.
Six children have died in the U.K. after being found to have the bacterial infection and there have been more cases than normal this year.
Most Strep A cases are relatively mild and cause scarlet fever with symptoms such as a sore throat and a rash – which can be routinely treated with antibiotics.
However, the bacteria can sometimes get into the bloodstream or other parts of the body and become ‘invasive’ and life threatening.
Microbiologist Dr. Simon Clarke, from the University of Reading, said he wasn’t aware of any evidence of a new strain but suggested the Covid pandemic [i.e., the lockdowns] might have contributed to an increase in cases.
“It strikes me that as we are seeing with flu at the moment, lack of mixing in kids may have caused a drop in population-wide immunity that could increase transmission, particularly in school age children,” said Dr. Clarke.
He said the cases didn’t appear to be linked – they are not clustered around any one area – but he believes “further cases over the coming weeks and months” are likely.
The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed on Friday that invasive Strep A cases (known as iGAS) have increased this year.
The rate for this year is 2.3 cases per 100,000 children aged one to four, compared with an average of 0.5 in the pre-pandemic seasons (2017 to 2019).
Among five to nine-year-olds it’s 1.1 cases per 100,000 children, compared with the pre-pandemic average of 0.3.
Worth reading in full.
Ironic that Dr. Simon Clarke, a Tory councillor as well as a microbiologist, should be saying this, given that he was a lockdown zealot. I wonder if he’s reconsidering his position? I daresay he will argue the pandemic would have meant less mixing regardless of what NPIs were put in place. Hmmm.
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Government Fakedemic lunacy – the gift that keeps giving.
Wasn’t there an increase in New Zealand too of child hospitalisations during their particularly vicious lockdowns? Dirty government scum.
Indeed, I think it was for RSV.
Death by sepsis is another illness I am hearing more and more about.
HAT (hydrocortisone, ascorbic acid, and thiamine, all intravenously) therapy should work for that. But the mainstream seems to not be too keen on that for some reason.
And let’s not forget impetigo as well, which is often caused by the exact same bacteria. We can thank those filthy face nappies for that!
Is the Increase in Strep A Infections Another Unintended Consequence of the Lockdown Policy?
Absolutely not. Reduced immunity and resistance to infection was part of the planning for all age groups.
While wrong about lockdowns, Dr Simon Clarke had some interesting observations regarding the prospects of a safe and effective vaccine including this warning from his experience of a trial for a vaccine for the MRSA bug: –
‘I once worked on a project to identify potential vaccines for the MRSA ‘superbug’. A major pharmaceutical company took forward one of the candidates and all went well until it reached phase three. There, it was discovered that the vaccine, which had been intended to reduce the risk of post-surgical infection, instead increased the likelihood of death by over 400 per cent. So it came as no surprise when US regulators recently threw a spanner into the Oxford vaccine’s works by halting booster doses for American volunteers while the side effects are investigated. This may prove to be a significant blow to the trial but it’s typical for these ‘bumps in the road’ that happen.’
Obviously from a time the regulators knew their purpose. As the mass injection of the COVID gene therapy has become the trial from March 2021, we might be seeing similar results to the MRSA trial above.
so herd immunity the issue here but cannot be deployed against covid. How convenient.
The whole thing has been the biggest most grotesque medical experiment in history by many orders of magnitude
Unfortunately not an experiment tof. All planned.