Thread by @MamaToronto

@OPCouncil @TDSBDirector @ETFOpresident

🧵TPH “Wear a high quality, well-fitting mask, especially indoors... Masks are strongly recommended in indoor public settings, & especially if you are around people who are at higher risk/have a health condition.”

toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…

TPH masking recommendations are clear. There is no way of knowing for sure if children in your care are immunocompromised. Best health and safety equity practice is to assume so and act accordingly.

toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…

In the current absence of mask mandates, it falls to you as humans responsible for the health & safety of vulnerable & immunocompromised children to role-model & encourage clear TPH mask recommendations during this severe-risk period of infection:

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ON PICUs: “Ontario pediatric hospitals are under strain, and some are transferring kids far from home. Under huge strain, some hospitals including in the GTA have been forced to send critically ill kids as far as Ottawa to find them a pediatric ICU bed.”
thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…

“…shortage of children’s pain, fever medications”:

toronto.citynews.ca/2022/10/07/can…

The “sick season” is just beginning. The current point of departure is already concerning as severe-risk (see COVID Hazard Index)

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Role-modelling & encouraging staff & families to follow clear TPH recommendations & mask up with N95 or better masks during this period of severe-risk of infection (see COVID Hazard Index ON) datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/repo… can include:

Following clear TPH recommendations and role-modelling wearing an N95 or better mask yourselves in indoor spaces during this severe-risk of infection period.

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@CPHO_Canada
10 months ago…

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Putting up TPH posters on masking on-site:

toronto.ca/wp-content/upl…

Emails to families:

10-15 minutes spent on an email to families to help prevent infection on site by reminding them of TPH masking recommendations and that we are currently in a period of severe risk is 10-15 minutes well spent.

toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…

Following & sharing TPH mask recommendations will help protect all students in your care from #C19 infection, & the following list of severe outcomes from infection: I.e. #LongCovidKids

#LongCovid & immune dysregulation:
PHO July 8, 2022

publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docume…

Risks of severe outcomes of #C19 infection in children cont:

25.24% chance of #LongCovidKids in this study

nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

CDC elevated risks post #C19 infection 0-17:

“acute pulmonary embolism (adjusted hazard ratio = 2.01), myocarditis and cardiomyopathy (1.99), venous thromboembolic event (1.87), acute and unspecified renal failure (1.32), and type 1 diabetes (1.23)”

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

Risks of severe outcomes of #C19 infection in children cont:

Government of Canada: “There’s currently no universally agreed-upon approach to diagnose and treat post COVID-19 condition”.

canada.ca/en/public-heal…

Please keep in mind:

“Some 60% of virus spread starts with those who have no symptoms.”

abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/cov…

@OPCouncil:

“Principals are also specifically charged with protecting the health of students. It is the duty of a principal “to give assiduous attention to the health and comfort of the students …” (emphasis added)…

healthydebate.ca/2022/04/topic/…

@OPCouncil cont

… Assiduous means that principals must give great care and perseverance to the comfort and health of students…

healthydebate.ca/2022/04/topic/…

@OPCouncil

…The obligations imposed by the Act make it clear that the duty of a principal is to ensure the physical well-being of students & to protect them from anything detrimental to their health, with a particular focus on communicable diseases…”

healthydebate.ca/2022/04/topic/…

@OPCouncil cont

By
@JacobShelley

“Assoc Prof… Faculty of Law & School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Western Univ… Dir of the Health Ethics, Law & Policy (HELP) Lab… editor of Public Health Law & Policy in Canada.”

healthydebate.ca/2022/04/topic/…

Please follow and encourage others to follow clear TPH masking recommendations. Please protect the students in your care from the listed severe outcomes of #C19 infection.

toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…

Please share TPH masking recommendations with staff & families during this severe-risk of infection time. Please practice health & safety equity for immunocompromised children.

toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…

There are ways to encourage following TPH mask recommendations when one is committed to doing so, even without mandates.

As humans responsible for the health & safety of children, please do so.

Thank you kindly,

A Toronto Parent of a TDSB child

toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…

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