Anonymous
10/08/2020 15:38
Subject: How to find out if numbers have gone up since schools reopened
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ontario is surging a month after opening schools.
It seems at least somewhat climate related.
I’m in Ontario, and the problem is a lot of restrictions were loosened quickly around the time that schools opened, or shortly before. While there are outbreaks in schools, they seem to be quickly addressed, as it only requires 2 linked cases to be declared an outbreak.
The high caseloads are also pretty contained in a few hotspots. I live in an area with no active cases, for example. Geographically, Ontario is huge - the size of many US states Put together.
I also don’t want to get too far into it, but the promised infection control measures aren’t really happening in a lot of schools. That said, I don’t feel like schools are really hotbeds of infection. The infections come into the schools from the community, so they’ve started reducing gathering limits and contact outside immediate households again.
If you’re interested, here’s our provincial breakdown:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-cases-schools-and-child-care-centres
Sorry, Ontario PP again - I also want to add that we don’t have the wide testing net that is available to those of you in the US, so many of these cases may have gone undetected before school. There is a strict screening tool you’re supposed to Do with your child daily, and any symptoms required exclusion from school for 14 days or until a negative test. Most people wouldn’t have been testing for mild symptoms in the summer, as most health units were still having pretty strict guidelines for who was being tested or not. Not to coin a Trump kind of train of thought, but more testing = more positive test results. We have just gotten testing at pharmacies in the last few weeks, so it does stand to reason that more cases will be caught.
Anonymous
10/08/2020 15:19
Subject: How to find out if numbers have gone up since schools reopened
Anonymous wrote:Ontario is surging a month after opening schools.
It seems at least somewhat climate related.
I’m in Ontario, and the problem is a lot of restrictions were loosened quickly around the time that schools opened, or shortly before. While there are outbreaks in schools, they seem to be quickly addressed, as it only requires 2 linked cases to be declared an outbreak.
The high caseloads are also pretty contained in a few hotspots. I live in an area with no active cases, for example. Geographically, Ontario is huge - the size of many US states Put together.
I also don’t want to get too far into it, but the promised infection control measures aren’t really happening in a lot of schools. That said, I don’t feel like schools are really hotbeds of infection. The infections come into the schools from the community, so they’ve started reducing gathering limits and contact outside immediate households again.
If you’re interested, here’s our provincial breakdown:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-cases-schools-and-child-care-centres