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CBE officials have said that this fall schools will encourage “general health measures” to reduce the risk of transmission of all illnesses, such as staying home when sick and practising good hygiene.
CBE will also monitor absences “internally” this year, but Anderson said it may still be necessary to transition individual classes to at-home learning. The school board has“It’s really interesting how the school board refuses to use proper masking or filtration, as though COVID was no longer a concern, yet they seem to be preparing for teacher absences,” Hu said. “Why is that, I wonder?”
“I really would like to see masking normalized, it is so important and such an easy way to protect others,” said Dr. Shazma Mithani, an emergency room physician who treats COVID patients at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra and Stollery Children’s hospitals. “I think that is a good idea. If we are seeing more transmissible virus in the community, we need as many layers of protection as possible, especially now with so many different variants of Omicron.”