Previous changes to COVID-19 protocols have been accompanied by formal announcements and news releases detailing the changes.
That’s according to the most recent guidance from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, posted to their website with little fanfare on Nov. 17.
“One of the things that we’ve had in place for a long time is saying if you have COVID you need to stay home for five days. That’s no longer relevant in the setting that we are in now,” she said. “I think the government wants to get off mandates — of telling people what to do,” said Sally Otto, the Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Experimental Evolution at the University of B.C. “I think they’re hoping that people will continue to do the right thing. But the problem is we’re not really seeing that when it comes to masking.”
In Edmonton, the public school board unanimously passed a motion requesting the province to set thresholds for mandatory isolation and masking as respiratory illnesses in classrooms reached record numbers.
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