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COVID-19: Ontario’s top doc suggests Niagara’s back to school plan not in line with province

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COVID-19 pandemic.In a letter, Dr. Kieran Moore suggested Dr. Mustafa Hirji’s approach to the return of in-person learning and child care failed to properly vet measures with Public Health Ontario, the Ministry of Education, and two other provincial outlets.Moore targeted three local public health guidelines — CO2 levels in classrooms, dismissal of classroom cohorts and medical exemptions for masks — in his correspondence with Hirji dated Jan.

15. Ontario to begin lifting COVID-19 restrictions on Jan. 31 “The memos describe the severity of illness and high-risk from the Omicron variant without providing any evidence to support this claim and contrary to the best evidence available of the reduced risk on morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population,” Moore wrote.He went on to question why the AMOH would state that only 25 per cent of youth acquire COVID infections while at school versus a 75-per cent risk in the community.“This statement would indicate schools are significantly a safer location for children and youth to be,” said Moore.“Yet you are placing children and youth in the position to be at home in the community more often than schools and without placing any additional measures to restrict community transmission.”CO2 monitoring is one initiative in contention as Hirji asked for schools to monitor weekly with a specific reading.

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