I received this text from our school district yesterday…& decided to reply!
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“Thanks for the reminder. Please make sure my child’s classrooms are ready for the first day of school by having good ventilation 🪟, adequate filtration (HEPA), CO2 monitors for teachers, encouraging masking, testing, staying home when sick, & educating families…”/2
“…to reduce the risk of of COVID-I9 infection in school, at home & in our community.”
“These mitigations are important because currently available COV1D-19 vaccines don’t fully prevent infection, transmission, & reinfection, the virus can affect every organ system…”/3
“…in the body, weaken the immune system, lower IQ, lead to LongCOVID even after a mild infection, & there are no treatments available.”
The long term damage happening to children's 🧠🫀🫁, etc…while
confined inside poorly mitigated classrooms 30+ hrs/week…” /4
“…1,000+hrs/yr, is not yet fully understood.
Precautionary principle is key!
Preventing harm is prudent!
Protecting all children is essential!
You have two weeks!”✌️ /5
I’m not expecting a reply…but it felt good to send it! 💪😷 /6
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“During the pandemic, masks became a symbol of divisiveness, enraging sectors of our society who thought mask mandates took away personal freedoms. The freedom to get sick & infect others, I suppose.”
🧵👇of full article by @missleetulloch 🫶🥇
h/t @CrabbBrendan
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“I'm sick of getting sick on planes.
I got another case of COVID-19 last month, on a domestic flight, sitting near a woman who was sneezing. I wore an N95 mask but she was wearing only the loose surgical type. I suspect she knew she was infectious.” /2
“There was nothing I could do about it. There were no seats to move into and, besides, to do so seemed a bit hysterical at the time.
Two days later - bingo. I wasn't very ill, but I was visiting immune compromised people and I put them at risk.” /3
“We are completely under-investigating this virus,” said Douglas C. Wallace, a University of Pennsylvania geneticist & evolutionary biologist. “The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking.”🎯/1
“…a University of Colorado team is studying whether covid reawakens dormant cancer cells in mice. Their provocative findings…showed that when mice that were cancer survivors were infected with SARS-CoV-2, dormant cancer cells proliferated in the lungs.”😳/2
“Mitigating risk of infection may be of particular importance for cancer patients. Based on the study’s findings, measures adopted by vulnerable patients…in the early days of the pandemic, wearing masks, avoiding crowded places, getting vaccines, become even more important.”🎯/3
Excellent article! What struck me…districts that skimped or refused layered protections & remote options may ultimately pay the price by now needing to accommodate #LongCovidKids w/ remote options & more, or the lawsuits that come if they fail to. 🤦♀️ edweek.org/leadership/tho…
This info is important for parents, teachers, school leaders, docs, nurses, public health depts & electeds who set policy yet paywalled for many, so here are highlighted pages 1-4 of 9.
HT @scott_squires
“Schools need to start talking about this…There may be a ballooning need for accommodations…We have to be prepared.” Donna Mazyck, National Assoc. of School Nurses