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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When I was in Ottawa, Wuebec City and Montreal last year and Van outer few years ago, they all seemed remarkably white save for a few of Asian appearance.
if you want to see what is referred to as diversity go to LB Newham.
It was hardly shambolic. In lockstep with the rest of the so-called rich liberal democracies.
Quite the epic dirt-dishing thread on Turdeau here. I always thought this Castro business was all tongue in cheek but it’s looking like another conspiracy theory turned fact going by this detective work;
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1685098191023173632
Simon Goddeck does do epic threads too. Here he is demonstrating the outright lunacy that suckered so many people in, nailing it with number 1. People should be ashamed for falling for any of this Monty Pythonesque nonsense;
”#1. Remember when being symptomless was considered one of the symptoms? The lie that one could be asymptotically ill, along with fraudulent PCR tests, only made this plandemic possible. Either you are sick, or you aren’t; being healthy was not a symptom of illness until 2020.”
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1686146653818949633
This gets another in a long line of eye-rolls from me.
Articles like this cement the idea that there was a health emergency and that nations could have a good or a bad ‘response’ to it. Can we please get real?!
Spot on
Playing into the hands of the enemy
Do some research on Dr. Robert Kadlec of the US Biosecurity Organization. Any article about the origins and management of the covid response is either ignorant or whitewashing. This was a well planned operation. The amazing result that was found is how extensive and easy it was to control the masses.
Here is the film of Matt Hancock running from questions put by Heiko Khoo: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97_YfgJvJw
Is it too much to ask for The Daily Sceptic to provide updates from Canada’s ‘National Citizen’s Inquiry’? On the evidence so far, that will be much more informative and interesting than updates from the ‘Hallett Inquiry’.
Well it started way before the Covid response. Turdeau really knows how to hold a grudge doesn’t he? What a massive sh*thead Nazi he is!! It would appear that kindness is now illegal in Canada. Was it not Martin Luther King who said something about it being our moral duty to disobey unjust laws? Well this guy has a lot of ‘form’ and is an actual saint. I sincerely hope for his sake there is still some justice to be found in that country because if what he did, the compassionate treatment he consistently demonstrated over the years, now constitutes as crime then where does that leave real life criminals such as dictator Turdeau? No wonder he always looks so bloody smug, he gets to mistreat the citizens and commit crimes with impunity!
”In 2005, he began serving and ministering to downtown Calgary—Alberta’s poor and downtrodden. “In other words, feeding the homeless and praying for them, which is now illegal,” he described to The Epoch Times in a telephone interview while under house arrest in Calgary following his court conviction in May for inciting mischief and violating his release conditions.
The police eventually showed up at Mr. Pawlowski’s church, telling him he couldn’t feed the homeless by law. Neither was he allowed to assemble or preach in public.
Such actions are also illegal and punishable with tickets, fines, and even jail time.
“They even have laws on the books that distributing printed materials—Bibles and Gospel tracts—is illegal. So I got tickets for that,” Mr. Pawlowski said.
He added that tensions with the authorities had reached the point where police showed up at his church weekly.
During the pandemic, he received 40 tickets for COVID-19 violations, including one for a Christmas celebration he said drew a response from over 100 police officers, 52 police vehicles, as well as anti-terrorism units.
On Aug. 9, Mr. Pawlowski, a native of Poland and an acolyte of the “Solidarity Movement,” could receive up to 10 years in prison for the charge of “inciting mischief” during Canada’s nationwide trucker protests last year.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-pastor-convicted-inciting-mischief-trucker-protests-facing-10-years-prison
Back in the day, preachers were also harassed, persecuted and imprisoned. I’m talking about the years after Jesus Christ.
“criticising Canada’s response to the Covid pandemic”
There was no pandemic
They say that you get the politicians you deserve and I think it fair to say that the Canadians deserve Trudeau.
No mention of the preacher that ******* **** Trudeau imprisoned for opening his church and holding services during lockdown. Now looking to do him for TEN years.
Sadly, Trudeau is NOT Saul of Tarsus. But there’s a few blokes from the last century he’s closely allied to.
A Savage Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.