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1/ This is the @ottawahealth (OPH) decision-guide for #COVID contact tracing in #Ottawa schools
It must change NOW.
Principals can tell kids with sniffles to isolate for 14 days, but the guide doesn't let them tell a class when a student tests +ve unless OPH approves it
It must change NOW.
Principals can tell kids with sniffles to isolate for 14 days, but the guide doesn't let them tell a class when a student tests +ve unless OPH approves it
2/ In practice this meant the principal of @MutchmorPS allowed my son's class to continue for TWO DAYS this week even though the parents of a child at the school told her directly their kid had tested positive.
And that's what @ottawahealth says was SUPPOSED to do
And that's what @ottawahealth says was SUPPOSED to do
3/ The students and staff from the class are all now self isolating. But in those two days between the +ve test and the isolation orders we all could have been spreading COVID to our neighbours, family, and friends creating more cases and possibly fatalities.
4/ Insisting on single point of control makes a mockery of every #Ottawa family that's kept a kid with a runny nose or headache home to isolate
What's the point of stopping potential cases when schools are told to ignore real ones until @ottawahealth says to act days later?
What's the point of stopping potential cases when schools are told to ignore real ones until @ottawahealth says to act days later?
5/ I am calling on @ocdsb, city ( @VeraEtches, @JimWatsonOttawa, @ShawnMenard1) and provincial ( @fordnation, @celliottability, @JoelHardenONDP) officials to fix this NOW.
We must empower our school officials to advise families to isolate when they get credible information.
We must empower our school officials to advise families to isolate when they get credible information.
6/ Otherwise we will be fighting this pandemic with one hand tied behind our backs, with more concern about following protocol then actually protecting kids and stopping COVID.
