Safe September Toolkit 2023

Tools to help protect against SARS-CoV-2 as we head back to class

We are entering a new school year, the second pandemic year without any protections in place.

PoPNB first created the Safe September toolkit in 2022 for parents, teachers, and administrators to understand SARS-CoV-2, how it spreads, and how to protect against it. This year we have updated and expanded the toolkit to better assist people to understand the virus and to safeguard themselves and their families.

In the revised kit, you will find information on the Covid virus, RSV, Strep, questions for school administrators, information about masks, air purifiers, preventing household transmission, and a link to obtain free masks and rapid tests from PoP NB.

The New Brunswick government and Department of Education and Early Childhood Development have again left New Brunswickers to fend for themselves without even the most basic information on the airborne and vascular nature of SARS-CoV-2. We're hopeful that with accurate information, New Brunswickers will be able to protect themselves and their children.

Thank you for taking the time to read the toolkit. Links within the slides are posted following each slide for easy navigation. Resources and information sources are included at the end.

A PDF of the Safe September 2023 Toolkit is available here.

• Rebuttal Matrix for Advocates of Air Filtration in Schools

• New Brunswick School Covid Reporting

• Request masks and rapid tests from PoP NB

• Corsi Rosenthal Box Instructions

• Contact Minister Hogan

• Find your MLA

• Find your Anglophone superintendent

• Find your Francophone superintendent

• ASHRAE 241P

• Long COVID RTI

• It’s Airborne site

• WATCH graphics

• CR box graphic in French

• Engineers Canada statement on ventilation

• NB Clean Air Act motion

• Chief Science Advisor report on Post Covid Condition

• White House Clean Indoor Air Summit

• Canadian National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health report on CR boxes

• John Snow Project

• Ontario School Safety resources

• Vaccine booking site

• Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) booking site

• Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Indoor Air Quality

• Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Back to School Safety Session

• Protect Our Province BC open letter to BC government for safe schools

Airborne Transmission:

• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/sciencebriefs/sars-cov-2-transmission.html

• https://www.canada.ca/en/publichealth/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirusinfection/health-professionals/main-modes-transmission.html

• https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-andanswers/item/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-how-is-it-transmitted

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825024/ (SARS)

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32294574/

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32356927/

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30704406/

• http://urgencyofequity.org

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/newsupdates/2022/03/23/lets-clear-the-air-on-covid/

• https://www.covidisairborne.org/

• https://cleanaircrew.org/

• https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/76/10/1854/7034152

Masks:

• https://bettermasks.its-airborne.org/

• https://ospe.on.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2023/03/Face_Covering_Guidance_Mar15.pdf

• https://pingthread.com/thread/1652394034055323648

Filtration:

• https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.16.21263684v1

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32845618/

• https://corsirosenthalfoundation.org

Post Covid Condition / Long Covid:

• https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.10.22272237v1

• https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140- 6736(22)01214-4/fulltext

Rebuttals to Administrators:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Pk8fpwXH8gzGIdddZql1pU2ZR ZVn3jH/view?usp=sharing

Nasal Sprays and Mouthwashes:

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34282982/

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8493111/

RSV:

• https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/index.html

Strep Throat:

• https://asm.org/Articles/2023/January/Scarlet-Fever-A-DeadlyHistory-and-How-it-Prevails

• https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/diseases-public/strep-throat.html#howstrep-throat-spreads

• https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/group-a-strep-infections1.6687216

Seeking Help:

• https://www.canada.ca/en/publichealth/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirusinfection/symptoms.html

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