Thread by @karamballes

This is nuts, children go back to school 3 days after testing positive, without testing before returning, no one in my school had cleared the virus to test and release on the 5th day

Looks like using children as "booster infections" is the actual strategy now
#edutwitter

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1509227606385864714

Zahawi claims majority of classrooms have good ventilation, I currently spend at least a couple of hours a day in a room with no windows, CO2 is around 2500ppm by the end of the lesson

Immunicompromised? Looks like the government has decided education will no longer be accessible to you

Zahawi claimed over 96% of classrooms are well ventilated which is why we don't need air filters

Then I think of how Sweden lied and fudged figures to pursue herd immunity via schools

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1507392425827967003?t=lxPVvgmiEPyA7CuNRqHYaQ&s=19

This is the DfEs clean air evaluation

Survey open for 7 days near end of term, looking for heads who completed the survey

What were the questions?
Most schools have a combination of well ventilated and poorly ventilated rooms

"Of the schools that had started using their CO2 monitors"

Lots of schools waited ages to get them, and not enough for all rooms, some schools got them but didn't record measurements

So when did your school get their monitors and when did they start using them?

So I'm wondering how many of the schools that got surveyed actually had the monitors in place to answer the questions, over 30k sounds like a big number, but we don't know the number of respondants

Also only consistently above 1500ppm CO2?! Should be aiming for half that really

Anyone know when the DfE advertised that schools could apply for air filters?

My head didn't know about it, considering only 1550 applied I think we can assume most schools didn't know about this, I wonder how long the window to apply was

About a fifth of those who applied were turned down, not consistently above 1500pm? Applied for rooms without windows but were still waiting for the CO2 monitors to provide a reading?

96% with good ventilation, yeah right

Here we go

Article on the 2nd Jan

Requirements, at least a week, student back 4/5 Jan, staggered return due to testing, so probably 14th Jan the earliest you have a weeks' readings (if you had the monitors to do it)

DfE survey doc released 21st Jan

https://twitter.com/gconstantinides/status/1509631249605963784?t=yYInvvw4Wmyg0g60V7hZKw&s=19

Zahawi "I don't need to wear a mask because I take sensible precautions, I wash my hands"

But does he sing happy birthday?
"living with covid" looks a lot like the March 2020 herd immunity plan, complete with misleading information

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1509581894643560457?s=19