We don't know how susceptible kids are to omicron, but since it's as contagious as chicken pox I imagine it will run through the schools pretty quick. Getting all school aged kids vaxxed and staff boosted should help, some places are starting school holidays early. Most kids need the structure, discipline and expectations that school provides, as well as a social environment to develop those skills too. For most people education is the biggest issue, but this time ya gotta crack down hard on the anti maskers who want to endanger children, fuck them. You'll won't reopen a school with omicron, if those idiots are around causing trouble, threatening and intimidating folks.
As with so many other things in this pandemic Foggy, it will depend on the local hospitalization rate, when the hospitals fill things shut down everywhere, including schools. That is the metric we go by these days, some governments are forced into it and some try to get ahead of the curve. Medical staffs are near the end of their rope and there are shortages of trained people, this is more the limiting factor than beds or equipment. Antiviral medications might help with some of this, if they get approved and rolled out by the new year, Canada and America pre ordered large quantities.
A new study says that while the COVID-19 omicron variant infects the human body 70 times faster than previous coronavirus strains, the infections appear to be less severe.Researchers from the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine found that after 24 hours of infection, the omicron...
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