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An outbreak investigation study reported a large outbreak from a high school in Israel, but this was confounded by the fact that the mask mandate was lifted just as there was a heatwave, which may have affected compliance with other recommended public health measures Footnote 20. Furthermore, it was noted that there was overcrowding in the high school that limited physical distancing, and ...
Sep 27, 2021 · COVID-19 outbreaks force 3 Quebec schools to close this week, including 2 in Montreal. For managing COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated people, they recommend an isolation period of 10 days ...
Jun 16, 2021 · The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant education disruption in Ontario. This has included mass and localized school closures, multiple models of educational provision and gaps in support for students with disabilities. The unequal distribution of school closures and pandemic-associated hardships, particularly affecting low-income families in which racialized and Indigenous groups ...
Aug 2, 2021 · Outbreaks, however, have occurred in schools that reopened without good mitigation measures. Israel’s first big school-based outbreak, which ultimately infected 260 people, came during a heat ...
Jan 8, 2024 · Background In January 2021, the Public Health Agency of Canada launched the Canadian COVID-19 Outbreak Surveillance System to monitor outbreaks by setting. Schools and childcare centres were identified as settings of interest, as children play a key role in the transmission chain of other respiratory illnesses. This paper describes outbreak trends observed in school and childcare settings from ...
Apr 7, 2021 · There may be students, like Mitchell mentioned, who have seen their earlier connections to school — friends, extracurricular groups and teams, mentors — fade away amid the pandemic.
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Schools can prepare for outbreaks or a pandemic by ensuring that they have an emergency operations plan with an infectious disease section, which outlines the actions necessary to reduce the impact of the outbreak. This new guidance consolidates and simplifies previous recommendations intended specifically for K-12 school settings.
