Professor cites COVID-19 research amid hostility among his findings

A Swedish professor of epidemiology has quit researching COVID-19 after facing fierce backlash over his findings that the disease poses less danger to children – undermining the political argument that schools cannot reopen .

Jonas Ludwigsen, a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute, said he has lost sleep as a result of “angry messages” via social media and email and is partially accepting of his study and partly Sweden’s adversaries are blaming them for the COVID-19 strategy. College fix reported.

His research focused on children between the ages of 1 and 16, during the first wave of epidemics last spring, including “laboratory-verified or clinically verified COVID-19, patients who were , Who was admitted to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children “related to the bug.

Reportedly only 15 children went to the ICU – at a rate of 0.77 per 100,000. Four had “an underlying chronic concomitant condition” and none died.

As far as teachers are concerned, “less than 30” ended up in the ICU during the same period – at a rate of around 19 per 100,000.

Ludwigsen also noted that the children did not wear face masks, while the rest of the Swedish citizens were only “encouraged” to practice social incentives.

Jonas Ludwigson
Jonas Ludwigson’s research focused on children between the ages of 1 and 16 during the first wave of epidemics last spring
Karolinska Institute

According to The College Fix, Lödwiesen faced his research, with Sweden planning to promote academic freedom protections in law.

Higher Education Minister Matilda Ernkrans told the British Medical Journal that the government plans to amend the Higher Education Act to ensure that people preserve education and research in order to freely discover, research and share knowledge should be done.”

Ole Petter Otterson, president of the Karolinska Institute, told the magazine that “hateful and abusive accusations and personal attacks against a pediatrician or other researchers cannot be tolerated”[ed] By public debate after being threatened or harassed. “

Ludwigsen called his letter to the editor, published in the February 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a number of amendments and “formal external peer review,” statistically included.

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