British Columbia's provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, is defending the province's back-to-school pandemic guidelines against calls from some parent and teacher groups for more stringent COVID-19 protocols.
Posted: Aug. 26, 2022 4:48PMOriginal Story posted by The Canadian Press
“We need to tailor the measures that we have for what we’re dealing with now, and I think these are the appropriate measures for as we’re heading into the fall,” she said in an interview Friday. In a joint statement Thursday, the Health Ministry and Ministry of Education encouraged parents to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 and other illnesses and to keep them home if sick, saying this was “particularly important in advance of respiratory illness season.”
Henry, who was part of the working group that crafted the guidelines, said she doesn’t see broad mask mandates returning. “As we move into October, November, December, I do expect that we’re going to see both a surge of COVID this year and I’m concerned that we’re going to see other respiratory illnesses that we haven’t seen for a while, particularly influenza.”
It said that as of July 17, 42 per cent of kids five to 11 across Canada have received their first dose.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.Johnston said the union supports the province’s efforts to get kids vaccinated, but is worried it won’t be enough on its own.
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