LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools

LAUSD families & community members advocating for common-sense, cost-effective safety at school: safe air (12 ACH), outdoor eating, and smarter testing.

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

We're thrilled to be partnering with @NISDSotomayor to build DIY air filters and measure air pollution benefits for #CleanAirDayCA! We’re proud to join students across the state who are coming together to clear the air. Join us: https://t.co/OEFQsgzNXd

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

@joaquinlife This is beyond horrific. I’m so angry for you. Your work is important in a world that’s so broken.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

1. 'Northland emergency doctor Gary Payinda said some viruses, which used to cause barely a sniffle in healthy adults, were now putting people in hospital.

"We're now seeing your typical regular healthy middle-aged person presenting to ED with...

https://t.co/5raaCHPBqK

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

We’d LOVE to work with @LASchools and @UTLAnow on HEPA) filters for every room. (Our principal was in the classroom today bc we don’t have enough subs, my kid is sick for the 2nd time this year. The absences are real right now).

[The Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation UK @CRFoundationUK]

We now have tantalising RCT evidence that HEPA filtration significantly reduced pupil absences in schools (p27 link below👇) during a large COVID-19 epidemic.

This is from the Classroom ACT study lead by Professor @CathNoakes.

#CleanTheAirWeShare

https://t.co/HRhlCNefHq

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Not enough people know about this, but there's a NIH-supported program giving out SIX FREE COVID TESTS.

Sign up here: https://t.co/MiSmFzdBGa

No insurance required. You also get access to telehealth, as well as free treatment (if eligible).

Please share and get the word out!

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

"Ventilated, clean air [has a role] in preventing the spread of COVID, and research shows that improved air filtration and ventilation can also increase employee performance and productivity as well as improve test scores and teacher retention rates." https://t.co/nRnq56DHzt

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

Exactly the same experience at my kids (private) school. Effective filtration and ventilation stops outbreaks. Right now only the rich who send their kids to private schools get to enjoy this perk, but this is cheap and easy to implement everywhere. There's no excuse.

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

@martacostello @LAUSDSup I just want HEPAs promoted by the District to teachers and principals as part of the Excellent Attendance Initiative. Because they ARE! They’re an amazing and simple tool for health and learning! Cc @UTLAnow

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

We’re in a wave. @LAUSDSup we have no reporting, no dashboard, no protection, and *promotion* of sick kids in class. How is this ACTUALLY working out for attendance, learning, test scores, & budgets? We could minimally promote masks, tests & get HEPAs in all rooms

[Dr. Deepti Gurdasani @dgurdasani1]

It's interesting that groups that have gone on about the impacts of school closure say very little about the v. high rates of persistent absences (>10% of school missed) among children- mostly due to illness. 25% of children persistently absent in autumn 2022 in England

[Liesl McConchie @LieslMcConchie]

Hey Team #COVIDisAirborne - I'm gathering lesson plans schools can use to teach students about the importance of indoor air quality.

All grade levels.

Drop your links below ⬇️. TIA.

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

1/ Have you been waiting out this surge, hoping to get a fall booster ASAP? Well too bad. The CDC's ACIP want to limit access to ages 75+, pregnant or immunocompromised. No schoolkids. No LC patients. No families who want safer holidays together. COMMENTS DUE TOMORROW (links)

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

@LazarusLong13 Sample comments available here (along with ACIP comments too) https://t.co/LTKm36CuGN

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

They killed monitoring.

So? We have Walgreens, and this.

If nothing else, comment, "I support nationwide wastewater surveillance. Please make sure the public continues to have access to the data."

I just commented- join me?

https://t.co/WpYMApc8Pu

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

Want to know more about the @CDCgov attempts to quietly and extensively limit covid vaccine access? https://t.co/gEYzvXqhm5

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

1/ Have you been waiting out this surge, hoping to get a fall booster ASAP? Well too bad. The CDC's ACIP want to limit access to ages 75+, pregnant or immunocompromised. No schoolkids. No LC patients. No families who want safer holidays together. COMMENTS DUE TOMORROW (links)

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

Draft comments you can use: https://t.co/LTKm36CuGN

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Over the last few weeks in NY:

➡️Several hospitals reinstated their mask mandate
➡️NYC added free KN95 masks to public health vending machines
➡️NYC council members supported a new free mask bill
➡️NYS announced a free N95/KN95 mask & test program for schools

Organizing works!

[LAUSD Alliance for COVID-Safe Schools @LAParents1]

@keetmuise No masks or testing required OR EVEN SUGGESTED for these "mildly sick" kids who come to school. And yes, there's lots of covid and general illness at our schools now, to the surprise of absolutely no one. https://t.co/rHaO5UVOr5