Face masks should be mandatory for all Victorian schoolchildren once they return to classrooms, scientific and medical experts say, citing international evidence that schools without universal mask wearing are 3½ times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak.
Scientific lobby group OzSage argues Australian schools should follow the example of some US cities, where children as young as three must wear a mask inside schools and kindergartens.
A paediatric and epidemiological expert and the head of the teachers’ union have both warned that the state’s new mask mandate for year three to six students will be difficult to enforce, though it should help to reduce COVID-19 transmission in schools.
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton ruled on Friday that Victorian children in years three to six will be required to wear a mask while at school and that masks for prep to year two students will be “strongly recommended”.
Doctors fear there will be more deaths in the home among
Covid positive patients as private operators recruit people with
no background in healthcare.
Face masks should be mandatory for all Victorian schoolchildren once they return to classrooms, scientific and medical experts say, citing international evidence that schools without universal mask wearing are 3½ times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak.
Scientific lobby group OzSage argues Australian schools should follow the example of some US cities, where children as young as three must wear a mask inside schools and kindergartens.
Today, we use the term “long COVID” to describe the lingering symptoms some people have many weeks or months after infection.
But how long COVID came to be recognised by doctors and the wider community shows us the power of patient activism, networking, research skills and persistence.
Using social media, patients collected evidence of their symptoms, and advocated for themselves and for further research. Even the term long COVID stems from this activism.