DIRECTOR of COVID RESPONSE AT UCSF: "It feels like CHILDREN have been an afterthought in terms of our Covid policy. The number of kids who committed SUICIDE in 2020 in California was OVER 130. The number of kids who died from COVID during that year was around TEN."

         

When the 'cure' is worse than the disease... 

DR. JEANNE NOBLE is also Director of COVID response and Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of California San Francisco

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