50 caregivers, including some from Nord Pas-de-Calais, call for postponing the start of the school year
In an open letter, 50 health workers are worried about the circulation of Covid-19 among children. These caregivers demand, in an open letter, a reinforced protocol and a report of the start of the school year.
This publication comes at a time when a Health Defense Council, which could lead to the announcement of new restrictions, is to be held this Monday, December 26 from 4 p.m.
Worries on the circulation of the coronavirus “among children and adolescents of school age “, notably with the Omicron variant, 50 caregivers signed an open letter published in Sunday Newspaper, this Sunday, December 26.
In addition to alerting the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, they want a back-to-school report.
Scheduled for Monday January 3, 2022, they judge it “at high risk given its proximity to the New Year’s festivities “ and respondent to have recourse to “distance education “.
Health professionals support the figures: “more than 800 children under 10 and 300 adolescents aged 10 to 19 hospitalized in six weeks.“
Among the names that appear at the end of this forum, several health professionals are from Nord Pas-de-Calais such as, for example, Matthieu Calafiore, doctor in Wattrelos or even Noémie Perez, pediatrician in Valenciennes.
We have this new school year coming up and the children in primary school are not yet all vaccinated.
Michael RochoyGeneral practitioner in Outreau
Michaël Rochoy, general practitioner in Outreau in the Pas-de-Calais, also signed it: “We have this new school year coming up and the children in primary school are not yet all vaccinated. They are going to be but the campaign is only beginning. Incidence rates are high and encourage caution. It would therefore be better to postpone the start of the school year. “
In this open letter, professionals wish “the development of a new health protocol in schools“and ask for more awareness”on aerosol transmission and the practices to be adopted to limit the risk of airborne contamination of the virus: CO2 sensors, aeration, ventilation, etc.“
Children can also be affected by long covid, i.e. fatigue or loss of smell, for example, persists for several weeks.
Michel RochoyGeneral practitioner in Outreau
Beyond the health professionals who signed this open letter, several epidemiologists also share this opinion.
But a few hours before the holding of the health defense council, our colleagues from France assure that the option of postponing the start of the school year was not finally retained by the executive.