Strep A bacterial infections blamed on lockdown immunity debt have now killed more children than Covid did during the first year of the pandemic, figures have shown. The Telegraph has the story.
At least nine children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have died of iGas, a severe form of Strep A infection caused when the bacterium gets into the bloodstream.
In comparison, only eight youngsters died following a coronavirus infection in those countries in the whole of 2020 – leading to fears that the immunity debt from pandemic restrictions will end up killing more youngsters than Covid itself.
As early as 2020, experts warned that limiting contact, shutting schools and insisting on masks would prevent children from encountering bugs that would prime their immune systems, leaving them more vulnerable to infections.
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, said: “At some point the immune deficit brought about by lockdowns has to be repaid.
“In terms of the high levels of Group A Strep infections there have been notable increases in cases in the past, however what is different this time is the high levels of viral co-circulation in the community, and the high number of deaths in children.”
This week Dr. Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), also confirmed that restrictions meant infections were circulating at greater levels.
These children spent half their childhoods living stunted lives hemmed in by restrictions for the sake of ‘protecting’ fearful adults. And now those very restrictions have killed them by preventing them from benefiting from the usual immunity they would gain to ordinary bugs. What an appalling way to have been treated by those whose primary responsibility was to safeguard them.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Dr. Stephen Griffin, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Leeds, has called for the return of face masks in the classroom to combat Strep A, saying they would have a “tremendous impact at decreasing transmission”. Will they never learn?
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Candice Marie and Mike Leigh have a lot to answer for.
Nuts in May !
Their hatred driven narrative will not succeed in the long term.
They act like spoilt children and should not be indulged.
I have the channel on now for most of the time I wish to receive news/ commentary. I guess talk radio is having similar issues although I do hear adverts on the radio but not TV. Not sure why this should be.
Clearly the MSM still has a stranglehold on opinion (conversations with acquaintances today bear this out) and would probably agree with these puritans that GBNews is an ‘unpleasant, toxic channel’ without actually watching it.
Good to hear viewing figures are growing.
Same here. I usually watch J H-B on TalkTV, but the rest of the time I switch to GB News. They have a great stable of presenters apart from the outstanding Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn.
The headline picture to this article is racist. There is an ethnic on the left, an ethnic on the right and whitey in the middle standing taller than the other two. A blatant example of white privilege.
Absolutely horrendous.
Coddled financed & stroked by tptb !
What a shame that you didn’t publish the full email address of the idiot who sent you the threatening communication. I and many others on here would like to let the volunteer know our views.
I wonder who funds their hate.
Stop Funding Hate = Orwellian New-speak.
‘Hate’ in the context it’s now used reminds me of the word’s usage by children in a school playground, which is the intellectual level of most of the brats working for these pressure/terror groups.