The Alberta government has committed to infecting all children with the delta variant come fall. Why is this problematic? 1/n
1. There are over 500 000 children younger than 12 in the province. If even 0.05% get a severe complication like pneumonia or MIS-C, that’s 250 pediatric hospitalizations.
2. We don’t know the long term effects of delta infection on children.
3. Delta is as transmissible as chicken pox which means it will spread through schools and daycares (and back home to unvaccinated or immunocompromised family members) like wildfire.
4. We are likely only a few months away from being able to vaccinate our children against COVID-19.
5. Halting testing, tracing, and quarantine ensures that families have NO DATA to make risk based decisions for themselves and their children.
6. Teachers. Educators. School support staff. Emerging evidence shows delta may spread more easily than we thought through the vaccinated. We are making schools and child care centres unsafe for children AND adults.
7. Marginalized, essential and frontline workers may not have the ability to keep their children home come fall. They will again will be disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. /end
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