The Facts:
Dr. Jared Bullard, a paediatric infectious disease specialist, is a witness for the Manitoba government who is being sued for the measures they ve taken to combat COVID, and has provided testimony regarding the unreliability of PCR testing.
Reflect On:
How much of the story of this pandemic would change if we recognized that cases were not an accurate measure of the pandemic severity? Why are conversations like this rarely had within the mainstream media?
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WINNIPEG: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms represents churches and individuals who are challenging government lockdown restrictions in the Court of Queenâs Bench as unjustified violations of the Charter freedoms to associate, worship, and assemble peacefully. The hearing commenced on May 3, 2021 and is continuing this week.
The onus is on the Manitoba Government to justify its restrictions on Charter rights and freedoms as being reasonable, necessary and beneficial.
One of the crucial issues in this trial is the operation and reliability of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test that is used by governments across Canada, including the Manitoba Government, to diagnose Covid and measure its spread.
Children less likely to spread SARS-CoV-2 than adults
A study conducted by researchers in Canada suggests that children may be less likely than adults to spread the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
As recently reported in
The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), the study found that samples taken from 175 children aged 17 years or younger were about half as likely to contain culturable viruses than samples taken from adults.
Furthermore, when SARS-CoV-2 was successfully cultured, a significantly less viable virus was present in samples from children than from adults.
The team from Cadham Provincial Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, says the findings suggest that children do not appear to be the main drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, which has important public health and clinical implications.
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Compared with adults, children were less likely to grow virus in culture Child care workers, teachers and support staff may be at lower risk of becoming infected
Children are less likely than adults to transmit SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) to others, revealed a new University of Manitoba-led research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Our findings have important public health and clinical implications, writes principal investigator Dr. Jared Bullard, associate professor, pediatrics/child health and medical microbiology/infectious diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba and associate medical director, Cadham Provincial Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.