Alberta Teachers’ Association hopes Pfizer vaccine for kids will smooth out bumpy school year
Global News
Parents, kids and those in Alberta's education system are preparing for some sort of return to normalcy after the announcement they have been waiting for.
The last year and a half in many schools across Alberta have been brutal.
“There was a lot of cases, a lot of people were becoming infected and that was shifting people to having to work online, back in school,” Alberta Teachers’ Association president Jason Schilling said.
Dr. Tehseen Ladha said schools have been a driver for community transmission of COVID-19.
“School is one of those situations where there are so many children in one space sharing air in one space for hours and hours a day,” Ladha said.
But with Health Canada’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine for kids ages five to 11, there is optimism for what’s left of this school year.
“What I think we will see is that roller-coaster that we had last year with concern of COVID cases and schools going online or being online for a week or a class having to go online, we might not see a lot of that turmoil or that disruption through the course of the remainder of this school year,” Schilling said.
Schilling said that could help with learning and said teachers are excited about that.
“If we can get the majority of school-aged children vaccinated, we’re looking at a scenario where there would be markedly decreased transmission in schools and fewer outbreaks,” Ladha said.
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