I commented the other day about the doctor's union the BMA siding with the teacher's union over back to school - well it appears many doctors are not happy with the BMA attitidude:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8326981/Doctors-war-schools.html
I have had my concerns about Dr Chaand Nagpaul, the chairman of the British Medical Association for some time.
From the article:
"The row over Left-wing unions trying to stop schools from reopening escalated last night as a senior medical figure was accused of using misleading research about the health risks of returning to the classroom.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, the chairman of the British Medical Association, had told the National Education Union that it was 'absolutely right' to object to the move back to lessons.
But another doctor – an expert in childhood infections − accused Dr Nagpaul of making 'clear errors' in warning of the risks.
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In his intervention yesterday, Dr Alasdair Munro, a clinical research fellow in paediatric infectious diseases, contradicted a letter Dr Nagpaul sent to the National Education Union on Friday supporting their stance against reopening schools.
The BMA chief quoted a Berlin study which, he claimed, suggested children 'are just as likely to be infected as adults, and may be just as infectious'.
But Dr Munro accused Dr Nagpaul of making 'clear errors of interpretation', arguing that the German study's conclusions weren't supported by their data and 'did not find children were 'just as likely to be infected as adults'… [and] did not demonstrate children are 'just as infectious' as adults'.
He tweeted last night: 'Not sending your kids back to school is a middle-class privilege. Let's start thinking about what's best for society, not just the families of the privileged few.'
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Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum