Interested in knowing what our provincial Medical Health Officers are recommending to the SK government regarding #COVID19SK? They really lay it out in this letter: trk.cp20.com/click/cffs-2ft… 
In summary:
General
1) Improve government messaging. The pandemic isn't over. We don't have enough immunization to 'live with covid', we need to use tools from the past 3 waves.
General
1) Improve government messaging. The pandemic isn't over. We don't have enough immunization to 'live with covid', we need to use tools from the past 3 waves.
Immunization
2-4) Mandatory immunization for all health care works (especially those in long-term care facilities), all eligible students and their parents, teachers, and school staff, and all government employees.
2-4) Mandatory immunization for all health care works (especially those in long-term care facilities), all eligible students and their parents, teachers, and school staff, and all government employees.
5) Vaccine passports of proof of recent negative testing for entry into nightclubs, bars, restaurants, and other events. Businesses should consider similar policies.
Masks and other public health measures
6) Mandatory masking in all public spaces.
7) Continue or increase routine precautions in long-term care (masking and mandatory vaccinations for works and visitors)
6) Mandatory masking in all public spaces.
7) Continue or increase routine precautions in long-term care (masking and mandatory vaccinations for works and visitors)
8 ) Mandatory isolation of covid cases and close contacts as well as staffing to investigate and contact trace.
9) Graduated enforcement including ticketing to enforce public health measures.
9) Graduated enforcement including ticketing to enforce public health measures.
10) A comprehensive covid testing strategy and process that includes screening, symptomatic testing, and active case finding for outbreaks.
11) Improved ventilation in schools and long term care facilities
11) Improved ventilation in schools and long term care facilities
Staffing and capacity
12) Surge capacity to meet demands for public health staffing including possible reinstatement of some aspects of the Letter of Understanding giving SHA more staffing flexibility.
12) Surge capacity to meet demands for public health staffing including possible reinstatement of some aspects of the Letter of Understanding giving SHA more staffing flexibility.
13) Public messaging regarding what public health will and will not do moving forward.
Reporting, monitoring, data
14) Routine public reporting of the %age of the population partially and fully immunized by age group, geography, and sub population.
Reporting, monitoring, data
14) Routine public reporting of the %age of the population partially and fully immunized by age group, geography, and sub population.
15-16) Data linkage between public health data (e.g. immunization and case data) and healthcare data (e.g. hospitalizations and other outcomes). The prioritization of legislative changes that would be required to facilitate this.
17) Regular public reporting from either the provincial government or SHA regarding COVID
Full letter: media.campaigner.com/media/57/57988…
Full letter: media.campaigner.com/media/57/57988…
To note for reporters reporting on and characterizing this letter, it wasn't "leaked" (as I've seen reported) - it was sent by @SMA_docs in a President's letter to every doctor in the province without any stated expectation that it would be kept in confidence.
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