The couple had “done everything right” for the past 18 months, never taking their children to the shops and strictly abiding by regulations to protect their patients as they both work in healthcare.
“My husband is self-employed [in medicine] and now essentially without an income for weeks. Not to mention all his poor patients who were relying on seeing him for their ongoing care.” “In some ways I guess we are lucky, so far no one in my family is too unwell,” Dr Thomson said. “But no one wants to be in this situation – it’s disruptive to work, it’s mentally and financially crippling. I worry as a mum and a doctor that other people who end up in the same situation as us may not have such a benign outcome.
But even with these measures, ventilation has emerged as a flashpoint for back-to-school anxiety: families have looked to overseas and now Victoria, which has spent $190 million including on 51,000 air purifiers, and feared NSW’s assurances about opening windows might not be enough. Some schools have gone ahead and bought their own purifiers, other parents have written letters to the minister.and called on NSW to improve its classroom ventilation strategy.
But at the same time, “installing filters in every classroom might reassure the community, but it may not be necessary,” he said. “We need to get the health advice.” The department on Thursday said it would share its audit with key stakeholders in the coming weeks. Vice-president of the Parents and Citizens Federation, Yvonne Hilsz, said its perspective was that health and safety was a high priority. “We are aware there are some credible commentators saying school classrooms should have air purifiers,” she said.
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