Anthony Furey
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New Sick Kids report warns of 'significant harms of school closure'
An updated guidance report from Sick Kids hospital on school reopenings in Ontario is sounding the alarm on the “significant harms of school closure” and discusses the need to “reduce the fear and anxiety in parents and children/youth.”

Buried Toronto schools report sheds new light on in-class COVID data
The detailed results of an asymptomatic testing pilot project conducted in Toronto public schools revealed that there is little undetected spread of COVID-19 occurring within classrooms and that parent-family positivity rates are much higher than that of students.

Medical expert urges governments to consider side effects of lockdowns
Dr. Cristian Rangel is a medical sociologist and Professor at the Department of Innovation in Medical Education at University of Ottawa who has written about his concerns with pandemic restrictions in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.

FUREY: Ford ignores harms of lockdown while imposing severe COVID measures
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a lot of theatrical things on Tuesday as he further locked down the more than 14 million people in his province. But instead of focusing on what he said, let’s take a look at what he failed to say.

Canadian expert's research finds lockdown harms are 10 times greater than benefits
Dr. Ari Joffe is a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Alberta. He has written a paper titled COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink that finds the harms of lockdowns are 10 times greater than their benefits.
