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Exeter, ON, Canada / 90.5 Exeter Today May 27, 2021 | 11:36 AM Premier Doug Ford has written an open letter to medical experts and health units asking for their opinions when it comes to reopening schools for this semester. In the letter, Ford talks about mental health, academic and other challenges some students have faced with at home learning. With that, he also spoke of the Science Table suggesting that reopening schools to in-class learning could lead to an increase of six to 11 per cent in the number of new daily cases. He also spoke about the rising number of variants first identified ...

Last Updated: May 27, 2021 | 5:03 PM Premier Doug Ford is asking Ontario health unit and education officials for their input on reopening schools. In the letter, he acknowledges the negative mental health effects on students that learning from home imposes. He says he expects modeling this week that puts the range of COVID-19 cases associated with reopening schools to between 2,000 and 4,000 cases by the end of July and that this is concerning with variant(s) still on the rise. He wants to hear back from the health units and others by tomorrow (May 28th) at 5 pm. To read the full letter, see ...

Article content BY DR. ALANNA GOLDEN,  DR. JENNIFER GRANT and DR. MARTHA FULFORD One of the good news stories about this pandemic is how remarkably unscathed children and youth have been from COVID-19 illness itself. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or OPINION: Strong leadership needed to open schools now Back to video Another good news story is that in study after study, schools have proven safe for children, youth and education workers. Schools are merely a reflectionof community transmission and have not been shown to amplify it. Despite what...

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All the top experts want Ontario Premier Doug Ford to re-open schools. So why won't he do the right thing?