- Guidance for schools was revised in January. Latest VSB updates are here, and include updates to their communicable disease plan, updated daily health check and COVID-19 testing and what to when sick (one pager).
- Eric Hamber Secondary’s nationally-recognized student newspaper, The Griffin’s Nest, has been publishing stories about pandemic response. The stories are unique because they represent the experience of education and COVID from the student point of view. Here are some stories worth checking out:
- The debate on COVID being airborne continues in BC, although not in other places. Here is an article about coming to terms with knowing COVID is airborne and how to respond to this fact.
- Here is a twitter thread about COVID and air filtration systems that should help “clear the air” about some misinformation that has been spread by people who are not specialists in this area.
- Jose-Luis Jimenez and Kimberly Prather on how public health history has influenced what we know about COVID-19 transmission and lessons for science communication — A podcast featuring two atmospheric chemistry experts convene on Stereo Chemistry to discuss their frustration with public health officials and their work to understand and communicate how diseases spread through air.
- Even if you’ve already been infected with COVID19, you are not immune to next infections. In fact, with Omicron, people, children included, are becoming reinfected weeks after recovering from an initial infection. Further, COVID19 causes an illness that first presents as respiratory, but is in fact a vascular disease. It is causing scarring on lung tissue, brain injuries, and interfering with the delivery of nutrients and oxygen to babies, in-utero, by damaging the umbilical cord.
- Masks continue to be an effective tool in protecting one’s self against catching COVID.
