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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ Kimberly Adams, president of the Fairfax Education Association, said her organization’s view is that no teacher should return to work until a vaccine or treatment for the coronavirus becomes widely available. She said all school staffers must be allowed to teach virtually for as long as they feel is necessary.”

Wow.  Hope a vaccine doesn’t take years.[/quote]

[b]What are her criteria for a widely available treatment?  The dexamethasone data are really promising, and it's cheap and abundant.[/b]

I think waiting for a vaccine is dereliction of duty, given how long it could take.  Or, they can take a substantial pay cut to really augment services for the kids who don't/can't learn well remotely.  Continued full pay for the disaster that was the past Spring is, IMO, unacceptable.[/quote]

I'm not a doctor, just parent with a science background,  but based on the reports of read on dexamethasone, this is overselling the drug

Dexamethasone seems to cause worse outcomes if it is given early in the course of the disease.  It has been shown to reduce mortality in those who are on ventilators (that mortality rate had been very very high, ~40%, and according to the preprint of the the study that came out recently dexamethasone reduces that mortality rate by 1/3).  It has also been shown to reduce the mortality on those who are on oxygen by 1/5.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20137273v1

It's a drug that seems to produce better outcomes for those who have been hospitalized and are having severe lung issues, but telling someone that they should go ahead and take the risk of catching the disease because if they get it and it is a severe enough case to warrant respiratory support they will be [i]somewhat less[/i] likely to die....

THAT IS ASKING A LOT OF AN EMPLOYEE!

The medical community is surely getting better at treating COVID-19 and I am super thankful for that, but it is still a dangerous disease that can progress quickly and still be quite deadly.  I just don't want people to jump to the conclusion that teachers who don't want to go back to in-person teaching are being selfish and irrational.  A significant portion of teachers are in high risk categories.[/quote]

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