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Are teachers more at risk from covid?

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notevenat20 · 03/02/2021 20:01

Did anyone listen to More or Less discuss this?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rvjr

What do you think?

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MrsHamlet · 05/02/2021 16:25

the mass refusal to work at the start of the term prior to school closures being announced was seen by many parents as a low political manoeuvre (the section 44 stuff and the large number of teachers who said they would only go in for KW/vulnerable kids).
Section 44 is not a refusal to work. It's a refusal to work in an unsafe environment. Anyone using that legislation would continue to work from somewhere not unsafe.

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:27

@TooManyPlatesInMotion why am I worried ? Because 2 of my friends are dead. 5 are currently in hospital long term and several are suffering from post viral effects. I know 2 teenagers who are seriously disabled due to covid. So that's why I'm not reassured.

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:28

And yet I've been in school all day with 25 KW/vulnerable students. Don't anyone dare say we are not working.

Remmy123 · 05/02/2021 16:30

How many teachers on this thread have caught it and how many were seriously illl (hospitalised)?

sherrystrull · 05/02/2021 16:32

@Remmy123

How many teachers on this thread have caught it and how many were seriously illl (hospitalised)?
Hardly representative as it's a small school but we've had two members of staff in hospital and one who didn't go to hospital but was very seriously ill and is still suddenly badly from long covid nearly a year later.
sherrystrull · 05/02/2021 16:34

And that's alongside many others like myself who were poorly for a few days/weeks.

As an aside, all of the CEV staff and staff with CEV family members are working remotely so my figures are from staff who would be classed as very low risk

Remmy123 · 05/02/2021 16:34

Well I'm curious - I'm not asking for overall statistic - just asking those teachers on here

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:39

In my school we have about 200 staff members. As of today we have had 47 cases in staff. Does that help ?

EnemyOfEducationNo1 · 05/02/2021 16:40

In my school we've had 3 teachers/tas in hospital. Only one stayed in more than a week though. I only chat to one and she's still not right. They all caught it in school during the last few weeks last term. There were many many cases amongst pupils.
We are being told about increasing numbers of pupils with long covid however, which is incredibly worrying.

Remmy123 · 05/02/2021 16:40

@mumsneedwine I was just curious what's with the attitude?!

Remmy123 · 05/02/2021 16:41

No one can say for certain where they caught it.

EnemyOfEducationNo1 · 05/02/2021 16:42

We were not being told officially which colleagues caught it, but judging by the cover list I think at least 30% had it at some point. I'm fairly convinced I had it just before the first lockdown, and it took me most of the lockdown to get over it.

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 05/02/2021 16:42

[quote mumsneedwine]@TooManyPlatesInMotion why am I worried ? Because 2 of my friends are dead. 5 are currently in hospital long term and several are suffering from post viral effects. I know 2 teenagers who are seriously disabled due to covid. So that's why I'm not reassured. [/quote]
@mumsneedwine I didn't ask you why you were worried, so there's no need for it.

I posted in agreement with a previous post.

I am well aware of why some teachers might be worried - I am married to one of them.

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:42

@EnemyOfEducationNo1 but no one wants to hear it. Bit like us all saying back in Sept that schools needed to have better safety measures or outbreaks would occur. Which they did. Badly in our case, despite all the possible precautions being taken. Had no cases until mid November and then all hell broke loose.
And now we see the long term sick kids but no one wants to hear us. I just don't get it. Why would we make shit up ?

MarshaBradyo · 05/02/2021 16:43

It’s being repeated on R4 now

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:45

Dear god. What's with the attitude 😂😂. Apologies for being ever so slightly hacked off at people who say teachers/school staff are not at risk when I've seen with my own eyes how they are.
And the old chestnut of 'know one knows where they catch it from'. Correct. So how do you know it wasn't caught in school ?

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:46

@TooManyPlatesInMotion apologies if you were not asking why I'm concerned- I thought you were agreeing with the poster who said exactly that.

MarshaBradyo · 05/02/2021 16:48

Schools infection survey November

1.29 v 1.23 positivity rate

A bit higher but not 3 x higher

There was a lot of fast talking

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:48

Data dates ?

MarshaBradyo · 05/02/2021 16:49

Who me? November

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:49

Because up to November 14th we had no cases since Sept. by December 21st we'd had over 200.

MarshaBradyo · 05/02/2021 16:49

Two weeks they didn’t specify

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 05/02/2021 16:49

@mumsneedwine to clarify, I understand why some teachers might be concerned, but I also think that concern is sometimes misplaced and/or not founded on the evidence, and I otherwise agreed with the comments of a previous poster on the issue.

mumsneedwine · 05/02/2021 16:50

Weird they are not including December. Lots of schools got hit v badly then. Was not fun

MarshaBradyo · 05/02/2021 16:51

Mums I think it was a specific survey that just ran in November

I can’t recall if anything focussed more on Dec