So listen. We have this data. Showing hospital admissions for ‘resp’ infections 2x pre-pandemic. But ALL school absence discussions - see CBC! See the National last night! IGNORE growing illness as biggest absence factor (or ANY factor!). This is horrible reporting/journalism. /1
How’s the phrasing here?
Any suggested edits?
Perhaps I should have improved clarity by adding “ongoing” and “institutional” to “denial”?
What is?
Meanwhile, one more nail in the coffin of MAHA's "overdiagnosis" / anything-but-COVID moral panic.
Keep the receipts from all those negligent medical influencers who insisted there was no need to worry about letting kids get infected, that COVID isn't airborne and that respirators don't work.
Well yeah, cleaning the air would probably make kids and teachers less sick, but it’s ToO eXPenSIve.
Would it be less than $28.9 million per person?
Less than $28.9 million in total?
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At the same time school absences - primarily from illness, you’ll find if you dig far enough - have skyrocketed. How very strange.*
*strange = utterly predictable
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How much of “learning loss” is actually cognitive dysfunction due to neurological injury?
You’re welcome. Thanks for spurring me to lay it out. I’ve been meaning to get started on something more comprehensive for a while, and this just might be the start.
What does attendance in 2026 have to do with COVID-19?
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"Current IPC guidelines (as in the National IPC Manuals) should be revised."
"The airborne route is dominant via aerosols containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that the
droplet paradigm was adhered to inappropriately along with fomite transmission."
The learning loss angle will have to wait for another day, but hopefully this gives a decent high level view.
So we have absences exploding in lockstep w/ kids being reinfected repeatedly by a virus that dysregulates their immune systems, making them more likely to experience both acute and chronic illness.
longcovidfamilies.org/pediatric-lo...
…recurring headaches, sleep disturbances, neuropathies, problems with taste and smell, and dizziness…”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Most kids and adults don’t know they are experiencing Long COVID. Symptoms overlap w/ diagnoses that ARE being flagged, but w/ other causes attributed.
“Common neuropsychiatric and mental health symptoms of long COVID include memory deficits, executive dysfunction, anxiety, depression…
Kids with Long COVID are far more likely to be chronically absent.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/res...
Long COVID impacts anywhere from roughly 1 in 10 to 1 in 3 of kids who are infected, depending on how it is defined.
That’s roughly 10% - 30% of kids in schools.
There is evidence that Long COVID incidencs increases per infection.
A good database: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
The average child has been infected multiple times now. And here’s what we know about the consequences.
COVID causes immune dysregulation.
libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts...
Since this time, COVID has been widely circulating and reinfecting kids, particularly in school settings, as they are in enclosed, close-contact, high density settings for hours per day.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
where the school disruption would have been greatest - but with the ‘let it rip’ of mass exposing children to the initial Omicron variant of COVID-19. h/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social for the 👇
This pattern is echoed in multiple countries where absences have become a growing issue. Most default to moral deficit explanations (kids are lazy/parents don’t care enough) to explain the ‘absenteeism’ problem, but the significant increase emerged not in the initial ‘lockdown’ period -
another article about the steep increase in absences since the pandemic “ended.” It didn’t end, but that’s the framing. Yes, that happened. It’s recorded and then reported on in pieces like this one, for example.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Okay, back at it. If you took a look at the link, you’ll see that reporting in Canada is inconsistent, inaccessible, and non-specific. It’s actually pretty hard to draw easy conclusions. If, however, you pull in other indicators, the picture is clearer. You can’t swing a 🐱 without hitting (1/x)
I want to answer this succinctly, but it’s more of a convergence of multiple factors than one study, and I can’t sit down with it at the moment.
Here’s how convoluted attendance data is in Canada, to give an idea:
www.proquest.com/docview/3244...
I’ll come back to this later today, though.
Are you looking for the data re: these stats or the illness trends?