The wild fire that is the Omicron, already forcing Ontario hospitals to cancel critical surgeries and diagnostic tests, will be doused with lighter fluid as @fordnation rushes to repeat its mistake of Feb 2021 by reopening school too early, if media sources are correct.
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Schools amplified #COVID19 last year, @COVIDSciOntario found, after pediatric experts pushed the province to ignored the perils of reopening without safeguards. Those same experts pushed again to reopen prematurely, and it will aid a variant that’s 12-fold more transmissible.
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Fewer than 4% of kids ages 5 to 11 are double-vaccinated. None will be required to wear N95 masks in classrooms that may not be adequately ventilated, none will get access to PCR tests and no public health official will have the capacity to track and trace outbreaks.
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Looking after those kids will be teachers who, for the most part, have not been boosted and last received a vaccine four or five months ago; growing evidence shows those teachers will have scant protection from being infected. 4/7
The result will be this: a massive number of outbreaks in schools in coming weeks that will force many classes to go remote. But instead of doing so in a controlled way, @fordnation has insured closing will be chaotic and threaten to push hospitals and home care over a ledge. 5/7
We needed patience; we got instead a politically-motivated push. We needed to heed experts who were right in February 2021; we instead were swayed again by pediatric experts whose noble intentions have blinded them to their tunnel vision. 6/7
I hope I am wrong; I am tiring of being right when it means so many suffer preventable death, illness and trauma, and not just those w/COVID19, but those whose cancers will get missed and who will miss their windows for life-saving or life-altering medical intervention. 7/7
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