COVID-19 exposures in schools.In an open letter to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Vancouver Coastal Health Chief Medical Health Officer Dr.
Patricia Daly, parents at Caulfeild Elementary asked for more transparency in releasing information about COVID-19 in schools.They asked for school exposure events to be publicly disclosed promptly and entire cohorts should be isolated when a case of COVID-19 arises.
B.C.’s family doctors say they’re facing burnout amid ongoing COVID-19 pandemic “Instead of waiting for contact tracing to identify which close contacts need to self-isolate, notify parents and teachers immediately and require the entire cohort self-isolate and have contact tracing identify which students are able to.