A high school science teacher who contributed to SickKids's recommendations on allowing children to return to the classroom this fall says that Ontario's back-to-school plan is unnecessarily risky. But in many of the province's typical classrooms, it won't be possible for children to keep two metres apart. He also consulted on the report from children's medical experts released earlier this week, and the report report thanked him for his "valuable input." His work focuses largely on the reproduction rate — the number of people one infected person is expected to infect. Without any safety precautions, every infected person with the novel coronavirus could spread it to up to four other people.

Source: CBC News August 01, 2020 07:52 UTC