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However, neither Chief Medical Officer of Health David Williams, nor Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province’s COVID-19 science advisory table, would say what criteria should be used to decide when other shuttered schools might reopen.Schools in Toronto, Peel Region, York Region, Hamilton and Windsor-Essex are scheduled to reopen on Feb. 10. The provincial government hasn’t made clear when schools might reopen in other regions where closings remain in effect.
At the time, case counts and hospital admissions were soaring. The modelling group projected on Jan. 12 that, if public behaviour didn’t change, the province could see anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 new infections a day and 1,000 COVID-19 patients in intensive-care units by mid-February. Dr. Brown, the dean of the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, said the projections assume the more transmissible variants of the coronavirus will have largely supplanted the existing version by March.“I think I’d be urging that in any place where we have concern that cases may take off to maintain the public-health measures,” Dr. Brown said. “By doing that, you may be able to get kids back to school.
Lindy Samson, chief of staff at CHEO , said she was pleased to hear that schools in Ottawa would reopen Monday. “The impact of not being able to do in-school learning, for many, many children and their families, is huge,” she said. “We don’t even understand what the real mid- and long-term impacts are. So [reopening schools] is the right thing to do.”
What happened to the 6000 cases/day by February model? Who’s projecting this utter bullshit?
This is just dumb.
Modelling is proof! War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery!
The cost of lockdowns are moot if we’re all dead
Let’s keep the lockdowns for now. We’re still way way over where we were in august
Insanity. Ok. Let's keep the lockdowns forever. The media is surely on the communists side.
Their models are trash. They always have been. When will the media do its job?