COVID Schools Canada
@covidschoolsCA
Tracking COVID-19 in Canadian schools. A volunteer-led project for safer schools & transparency in our educational system.
#Masks4Canada. Lead: @spaiglass
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http://covidschoolscanada.org 09-09-2020 10:19:20
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Proud to have been part of the COVID Schools Canada project, which crowdsourced outbreak data from parents in the first year of the pandemic and gave parents a tool to keep their kids safe in those scarier early days. Lots of lessons here on how to organize a similar campaign for any…
Our educational article, '14 Quick Tips to Crowdsource Data for Public Health Advocacy' now out in PLOS Comp Biol ! Pls RT+share!
h/t Joshua James Anjalee Benedict Cheryl White Kashif Pirzada, MD Lincoln Stein + Greg Wilson for nudge to write this + BF Francis Ouellette Patricia Palagi for support. /1
A new study (pre-print) using Canadian school data (COVID Schools Canada) shows how COVID transmission occurred in schools. These data can be used to simulate how school interventions or more transmissible variants affect school transmission (e.g., number of cases in a school).