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Today I sent a letter to @CMSboard. I really appreciate the work they do, and I already got a response!
Tomorrow night they meet to discuss how to respond to the @NC_Governor's coming recommendation.
Read the letter here: https://bit.ly/31vkSqd
Tomorrow night they meet to discuss how to respond to the @NC_Governor's coming recommendation.
Read the letter here: https://bit.ly/31vkSqd
I thought I'd make a list of the studies, articles, and recommendations I shared with them (and with @NC_Governor).
Here goes:
Here goes:
Children are not COVID-19 super
spreaders: time to go back to school - @apsmunro
"Governments worldwide should allow
all children back to school regardless of
comorbidities."
https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/early/2020/05/05/archdischild-2020-319474.full.pdf
spreaders: time to go back to school - @apsmunro
"Governments worldwide should allow
all children back to school regardless of
comorbidities."
https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/early/2020/05/05/archdischild-2020-319474.full.pdf
"...current evidence and
experience support the concept that children can return
to school in a manner that maximizes children’s health
and minimizes risks from a Public Health perspective" --Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
http://www.sickkids.ca/PDFs/About-SickKids/81407-COVID19-Recommendations-for-School-Reopening-SickKids.pdf
experience support the concept that children can return
to school in a manner that maximizes children’s health
and minimizes risks from a Public Health perspective" --Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
http://www.sickkids.ca/PDFs/About-SickKids/81407-COVID19-Recommendations-for-School-Reopening-SickKids.pdf
"Schools must reopen for the health of children" -Dr. Meghan Treitz, Dr. Rusha Lev https://www.denverpost.com/2020/06/24/colorado-schools-reopen-coronavirus-guest-commentary/
"Yes, kids should be going back to school in the fall" -Joseph G. Allen is an assistant professor of exposure assessment science, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/24/yes-kids-should-be-going-back-school-fall/
"We Don’t Need to Close Schools to Fight the Coronavirus" -Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an associate professor at the university’s school of public health. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/coronavirus-school-closing.html
"Worldwide, relatively few children have been reported with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Data from the Netherlands also confirms the current understanding: that children play a minor role in the spread of the novel coronavirus." https://www.rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/children-and-covid-19
"The data suggests that children are not the primary drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools and could help inform exit strategies for lifting of lockdowns." https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa794/5862649
"A number of countries that have reopened schools in the past two months have reported no resulting increase in coronavirus infection rates..." https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949
"...the AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school."
https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/
https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/
"It is now clear that children -- and the world at large -- would be best served if schools reopen." -Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/opinions/time-to-reopen-schools-covid-19-fore/index.html
"Pediatricians say they are seeing alarming injuries and deaths as the coronavirus pandemic cripples the nation’s early-warning system for child abuse" https://www.wsj.com/articles/child-abuse-reports-are-falling-and-thats-bad-news-for-children-11591263001
I shall add this to my thread in hopes that @NC_Governor and @CMSboard see it. https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1277653106810109953?s=19
MAYBE this isn't a bad thing.
MAYBE, @NC_Governor was planning something other than what's been recommended by Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the American Academy of Peds, most of western Europe, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Denmark, etc. https://twitter.com/WFAE/status/1278129166668480513?s=19
MAYBE, @NC_Governor was planning something other than what's been recommended by Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the American Academy of Peds, most of western Europe, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Denmark, etc. https://twitter.com/WFAE/status/1278129166668480513?s=19
And maybe he's reconsidering and reviewing the vast evidence after reading my letter and thread.
Here's an interview with one of the Drs. from @AmerAcadPeds who wrote the recommendation to open schools.
He had COVID. He has 2 high schoolers. He says schools should open.
@NC_Governor and @CMSboard both need to see this. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/coronavirus-schools-reopening-guidelines-aap.html
He had COVID. He has 2 high schoolers. He says schools should open.
@NC_Governor and @CMSboard both need to see this. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/coronavirus-schools-reopening-guidelines-aap.html
Great thread here by @apsmunro. Keep this in mind as you see stories about outbreaks in schools. https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1269670885100748801?s=19
It's also worth noting that, according to the data from Sweden, teachers are at lower than average risk of contracting COVID than other professions. https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1278011105034592256?s=19
