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Whichever way you spin it, a BIG BANG return to FULL opening of ALL English schools on a single day is INSANE!
Mixing 10M children w/ all the staff that it will entail, with current disease prevalence & more transmissible variants is a sure fire way to INCREASE TRANSMISSION!1/8
Mixing 10M children w/ all the staff that it will entail, with current disease prevalence & more transmissible variants is a sure fire way to INCREASE TRANSMISSION!1/8
As cases rise, WHICH THEY WILL, it’ll be impossible to know which age ranges are responsible quickly & change course without causing absolute havoc to the education of the children & to the lives of their working & non-working parents. 2/
And of course, that’s not even considering the effect on the individuals who may needlessly become seriously ill w/ #COVID19, get #LongCovid or sadly die.
On so many levels, a phased return is needed...NO....
IS ESSENTIAL to allow careful monitoring & a chance to change tack. 3/
On so many levels, a phased return is needed...NO....
IS ESSENTIAL to allow careful monitoring & a chance to change tack. 3/
1/It's the eve of provincial announcements on schools reopening for in-person instruction.
Households are under stress and experts are divided on whether schools are unicorns or infernos.
Everyone wants to do right by kids, who have borne so much throughout this pandemic.
Households are under stress and experts are divided on whether schools are unicorns or infernos.
Everyone wants to do right by kids, who have borne so much throughout this pandemic.
2/As @AmyGreerKalisz, @AshTuite and I wrote in July, the most effective strategy in schools is to decrease community transmission.
In that context, superspreader events in schools rarely occurred in the Fall, and PH measures seemed to be effective. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
In that context, superspreader events in schools rarely occurred in the Fall, and PH measures seemed to be effective. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
3/But local and global data are conflicted re: the role kids play in #SARSCoV2 transmission, with few studies involving comprehensive testing of asymptomatic high-risk contacts.
(recall: up to 50% of kids with COVID are asymptomatic, so symptom-based testing will miss cases).
(recall: up to 50% of kids with COVID are asymptomatic, so symptom-based testing will miss cases).
Thread: We all know we need to keep improving #TestTraceIsolateSupport to get us out of the lockdown, and to save lives.
The chapter on testing, case management and contact tracing in the Auditor General's report is a GREAT blueprint for improvement.
auditor.on.ca/en/content/spe…
The chapter on testing, case management and contact tracing in the Auditor General's report is a GREAT blueprint for improvement.
auditor.on.ca/en/content/spe…
Recommendation #1 is about lab testing capacity and adequate funding for hospitals. 
Recommendation #2 is about making sure @PublicHealthON is properly funded and that the behind the scenes work is being properly coordinated.
@thatalicewu @rachel_elisse .@prof_goldberg has been sharing these stories w/ the intro “Meanwhile, in non-failed societies...” The fatalism & acceptance of federal failures here in the US is hard to see. Taiwan & others did social distancing the way it was supposed to be done....
@thatalicewu @rachel_elisse @prof_goldberg Close down places where people spend significant time indoors. Do it for a few weeks to stop exponential spread while you massively ramp up resources & public health infrastructure for easy-access testing, impeccable contact tracing & strong supports for isolation (TTSI)
@thatalicewu @rachel_elisse @prof_goldberg Public health experts knew *knew* massive resources for #TestTraceIsolate were needed to suppress transmission. We knew it was the *only* way to return to some sense of normalcy without 100s of 1000s of deaths. We knew *how* to make it happen... but...
Let’s aim for #COVIDZero with Rapid Testing!🇨🇦📄✍🏻
Avoid painful recurrent lockdowns with #TestTraceIsolateSupport.
Sign the petition to urge @GovCanHealth to approve Rapid Tests for Canadians - Via @KashPrime #COVID19
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Avoid painful recurrent lockdowns with #TestTraceIsolateSupport.
Sign the petition to urge @GovCanHealth to approve Rapid Tests for Canadians - Via @KashPrime #COVID19
chng.it/76zhSXSKjK
There are at least TEN made-in-🇨🇦 Rapid #COVID19 Tests pending approval by @GovCanHealth
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ten-canad…
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ten-canad…
Thread with additional explanations by @KashPrime
