British Columbia Schools Ventilation Progress

Purpose of site

Given COVID-19 is Airborne and the world is pushing to better ventilate schools for long term student and teacher health, we’re tracking the progress for that in British Columbia. This is ahead of government effort to do the same. If government starts to track this work, this effort will continue because that effort might be weak.We’re guided by 33 profs and PhDs who are pushing for a policy change in a March 2024 article on Science.org: Mandating indoor air quality for public buildings. Not only active ventilation (which should be mechanical heat recovery type in this age), but air filtration/purification too and CO2 monitoring to drive ventilation levels, as CO2 inside is a proxy indicator for COVID risk. As it happens the WHO also have a 2023 airborne risk assessment guide

Know that other diseases are airborne too: Measles (studies 1 2 3 4), Influenza, RSV and TB. The same ventilation and air filtration measures reduce transmission of those too.

When we say student and teacher health, we’re wanting absences to go down too. If we lower transmission in schools, we reduce multi-generation transmission too, as kids bring infections home to parents. With lowered transmission, we also reduce long COVID, where the worst sufferers have disappeared from education and the workplace.

Leaderboard

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Ventilation grade breakdown for schools in BC:

Grade 0: 851
Grade 3: 5

British Columbia School Districts:

Fraser Valley

33 Chilliwack: 30 schools
34 Abbotsford: 25 schools
35 Langley: 19 schools
42 Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows: 18 schools
75 Mission: 16 schools
78 Fraser-Cascade: 9 schools

Metro Region

36 Surrey: 131 schools
37 Delta: 9 schools
36 Richmond: 11 schools
39 Vancouver: 109 schools
40 New Westminster: 1 schools
41 Burnaby: 2 schools
43 Coquitlam: 2 schools
44 North Vancouver: 45 schools
45 West Vancouver: 18 schools
46 Sunshine Coast: 2 schools
48 Sea To Sky: 2 schools
93 Conseil Scolaire Francophone: 2 schools

Vancouver Island

47 Powell River: 1 schools
61 Greater Victoria: 3 schools
62 Sooke: 6 schools
63 Saanich: 2 schools
64 Gulf Islands: 9 schools
68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith: 3 schools
69 Qualicum: 1 schools
70 Pacific Rim: 2 schools
71 Comox Valley: 2 schools
72 Campbell River: 19 schools
79 Cowichan Valley: 2 schools
84 Vancouver Island West: 1 schools
85 Vancouver Island North: 2 schools

Thompson-Okanagan Region

19 Revelstoke: 4 schools
22 Vernon: 21 schools
23 Central Okanagan: 30 schools
53 Okanagan-Similkameen: 8 schools
58 Nicola-Similkameen: 10 schools
67 Okanagan-Skaha: 11 schools
73 Kamloops-Thompson: 9 schools
74 Gold Trail: 8 schools
83 North Okanagan-Shuswap: 25 schools

Northern Region

27 Cariboo-Chilcotin: 24 schools
28 Quesnel: 14 schools
49 Central Coast: 5 schools
50 Haida Gwaii - Queen Charlotte: 6 schools
52 Prince Rupert: 9 schools
54 Bulkley Valley: 8 schools
57 Prince George: 4 schools
59 Peace River South: 19 schools
60 Peace River North: 12 schools
81 Fort Nelson: 5 schools
82 Coast Mountains: 19 schools
87 Stikine: 4 schools
91 Nechako Lakes: 15 schools
92 Nisga’a: 4 schools

Kootenay-Boundary Region

5 Southeast Kootenay: 17 schools
6 Rocky Mountain: 17 schools
8 Kootenay Lake: 20 schools
10 Arrow Lakes: 5 schools
20 Kootenay-Columbia: 10 schools
51 Boundary: 10 schools

B.C. parent pressure

Parents demand B.C. schools do more to improve air quality as triple epidemic rages - Jan 2023

Work announced for B.C. Schools:

Ventilation upgrades for schools across B.C.

“The federal government is investing $3,376,941 through the COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. The provincial government is investing $844,235.”

Site Schools Safety BC doesn’t have any advice on aitborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) though.

Site ownership

This site is edited by volunteers who’re interested in accelerating the work to complete the adequate ventilation of British Columbia schools. This effort was not commissioned by education authorities or government.

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