Three years ago, I reported on the science showing a plausible link between child hepatitis deaths & SARS2 infections. There was no shortage of evidence, even then, to justify invoking the precautionary principle to protect children.
It has taken 3 years to confirm that (already) plausible link, but the news cycle has moved on, public health is dead and society's duty to protect children now deemed too burdensome on the economy, a drain on billionaires' bonuses. Our children's right to health & life - shredded to a pulp, recycled into dividend cheques for our corporate overlords.
Being right (covering the correct science) gives me the opposite of comfort. I am livid. The evidence has always been there. Why are my colleagues in the media ignoring/suppressing/minimising it?
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I wrote:
"The WHO is investigating adenovirus and Covid-19, or a combination of both, as possible causes of the unexplained acute paediatric hepatitis.
Covid vaccines have been categorically ruled out as a cause, because most of the children with unexplained hepatitis were too young to receive such a vaccine.
The UK and US have been criticised by scientists internationally for taking a slow and narrow approach to diagnostics – such as the reliance on PCR tests without testing for antibodies. But as Raina MacIntyre, professor of global biosecurity at the University of New South Wales, points out, hepatitis presents as a late complication after acute infection, so negative PCR tests are unsurprising.
Over-emphasising adenovirus found in bloods and downplaying its absence in the liver is another concern. There is a body of credible international evidence which, although inconclusive, merits scrutiny.
This month, the Journal of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition documented the case of a three-year-old previously healthy girl who developed acute liver failure secondary to type 2 autoimmune hepatitis preceded by mild infection with Covid-19. “This case highlights a possible association between SARS-CoV-2 infection (Covid) and subsequent development of autoimmune liver disease presenting with acute liver failure,” it said.
In May, the Italian paediatric infectious disease journal reported a recent increase in incidence of children with Covid-associated multi-system inflammatory conditions, presenting later with prominent hepatic involvement post Covid.
The majority of patients tested negative for Covid but positive for Covid antibodies".
And...
"In India, a study of acute paediatric hepatitis between July and April 2021 found that the one common factor was previous Covid infection.
Lead author Dr Sumit Rawat indicated that hepatitis cases seemed to drop off when Covid stopped circulating widely in the region but picked up again when cases were high.
Last week, Kyoto University professor Hiroshi Nishiura revealed research looking at the relationship between the cumulative number of Omicron Covid cases in 38 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
Those with large numbers of Omicron infections, such as Britain and the US, were also found to have reported a relatively higher number of childhood hepatitis cases.
Prof Nishiura warned that “since toddlers and infants are ineligible for coronavirus vaccines, they may be at an increased risk of severe hepatitis following an adenovirus infection if they are in countries where large-scale Covid-19 infections are occurring”. The professor cautioned: “We cannot deny the possibility that infection with Omicron has some relation to the occurrence of severe hepatitis in children.” To prevent acute childhood hepatitis, he said, “governments should focus on mitigating the spread of the Omicron variant”.
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