Thread by @KashPrime

Quebec is seeing school cases increase exponentially about 1 month after opening schools. They have limited capacity to test for variants, but this pattern is very similar to what we saw in the UK, Ireland and others with the B117 variant.

Sadly so much could have been done to make schools safer, but Quebec did absolutely nothing.
They needed to:
- improve ventilation
- install HEPA filters
- mask everyone from JK
- create small class sizes
- use rapid testing

And of course, the South African and Brazilian variants, along with the UK variant, are on there way to becoming fully established here. No surprise given the volume of flights still coming in and out.

https://twitter.com/FourWinns298/status/1358541245879095302?s=20

All many of us on the clinical side can do now is throw up our hands and hope you can protect yourself and your families. Wear higher quality masks, avoid indoor spaces, try to hold out until the vaccines get here. Many won't have these choices and will be needlessly exposed.

These are some good strategies to improve your masks:

https://twitter.com/CBCTheNational/status/1358128829085212672?s=20

And if you do get Covid, some tips:

https://twitter.com/KashPrime/status/1336412331153231874?s=20

'Alarm isn't alarmism if it's warranted' Again and again we fail to understand exponential growth. Those of us who have been right about every facet of this pandemic for over a year watch with frustration as we miss one opportunity after another

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1358529405941866496?s=20

Thanks to the @covidschoolsCA team and @spaiglass for their excellent work, as well as @CovidEcoles for compiling the data. All great people to follow for a good window into school cases across Canada.
#masks4canada