#NSPPP NS Proactive Pandemic Preparedness
1) Minister of education, Minister of health, Public officer of health, should start virtual, webcast meetings for upto 2 hours, three times a week starting now an continuing into the first three months of school reopening.

2) These webcasts are for Teachers, parents and other support staff to call and have concerns addressed.

3) Deputy ministers, responsible for health, education and infrastructure and their senior staff should be available by phone to answer details also

4) Medical officer of health can describe plans for in school testing and management of students, teachers, staff that show symptomtic and asymptomatic evidence of covid -19, amidst other respiratory infections

5) Medical officer of health should describe how parents, grandparents, siblings , members of bubbles will be managed when cases of symptomatic and asymptomatic spread surface in schools

6) Familr doctors and other essential health care providers must be kept abreast of school, community and residential care facility outbreaks of covid -19, influenzas and other respiratory infections during fall, winter and spring.

This communication is essential and will give us confidence that we will succeed in managing the second wave - TOGETHER