Canada!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada"> The Feds just gave Provinces $2B for safe schools. Contact your Premier and MoE to ensure public schools are safe for ALL!

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Based on emerging evidence for COVID-19 transmission, these are the key asks from #Masks4Canada.

Learn more at: https://masks4canada.org/safeseptember/ 
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Small class sizes will enable 2m distancing and reduce chances of outbreaks. We are asking for a max of 15 kids in a classroom.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7291980/larger-class-sizes-coronavirus-transmission-study/
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Mandate masks for all K-12 kids: Masks are low-cost, low-harm, high-benefit option in crowded, poor vent. classes. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Pfeil nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach unten">infections in kids, and transmitted infections to teachers, expectant moms, and community. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Pfeil nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach unten"> risk #LongCOVID.
@AmyTanMD @spaiglass
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Ventilation: With emerging role of airborne transmission, Province must assess ventilation needs on per-school and per-classroom basis. Follow @DavidElfstrom for more on this discussion.
Current guidelines in this handy infographic:
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Approval of rapid saliva-based testing will allow routine test-trace-isolate in schools, catch asymptomatic cases at the door, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Pfeil nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach unten"> chance of outbreaks and school closure.
From @KashPrime
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Need clear plans for outbreak mgmt.
- With a +ve cases, who gets tested, quarantined, notified?
- Who notifies, school or PH? Notify for lice but not COVID?
- What about families in multiple schools? Shared bus routes? Many outstanding Q.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-school-guide-document-1.5695219
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The $2B injection from Feds is timely but we need to speak up to ensure funds go where they are needed. Public schools should be safe for ALL, not privileged few.
Contact your Prov gov& #39;t now. http://tinyurl.com/m4c-call2action 
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Ottawa to pump another $2B into safe restart of schools

The funding would come on top of the $19-billion package that Ottawa offered provinces to relaunch their economies in July.

http://tinyurl.com/m4c-call2action

@Masks4BC