US Doctor On Opening Schools

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Dr James Hildreth, CEO of an American hospital and public health adviser to the mayor of Nashville, has a clear message about the opening of schools.

6 minute video well worth everyone's time.

@mathanxiety

How much mask wearing is enough?

www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-08-18/colleges-grapple-with-coronavirus-as-students-return

It's more than 1% anyway...

The experience of US universities less than one week into the semester should be very sobering.

How much mask wearing are teachers prepared to put up with during the school day?
This is a mind-blowingly preposterous question.

Ah but that's not relevant to us as the UK is "different" doncha know

Remember how, right back at the beginning, Whitty and Valance and co told us how the WHO recommendations of testing and tracing weren't applicable to the UK because we were so well prepared?
And then we had the worst excess death rate in Europe and possibly the world?

Yeah....

@mathanxiety am I reading right that they opened it with a 2.8% positive rate so roughly 3 in 100 were positive

@WhyNotMe40 While I dont disagree with your sentiment (although I am not sure we will be the worst in the world) the current UK situation isnt the US. And we should be very grateful for that

Let's hope that's he's wrong but I suspect not. I would love for schools to be back full time but I fear with the current arrangement that schools will be back to where they were at the end of March.

I have been watching Scottish schools the last week and scaling up against positive cases between Scotland and England and what I can see happening and unless there's a drastic change in the plan then I can't see schools lasting much into October. By week four I wouldn't be surprised if there was close to 7000 schools affected with outbreaks in England. I won't say what formula I used to come to this figure and hope that I am wrong but after reaching this I applied the same formula I used to the jump from 3 outbreaks in schools up to June and 197 from June to end of term and it came out at 189.

I think teachers should be able to wear visors if they wish. Kids too. Masks no. I can’t hear anyone through a mask unless I am super close.

But visors are no use. Everyone should be wearing masks.