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As several provinces continue to see COVID-19 cases surge, students in Alberta and British Columbia will return to the classroom on Monday. Saskatchewan resumed in class learning this week, while most other provinces delayed their back to school date to Jan. 17. Our question this week: Should children return to the classroom during an Omicron surge? How can we make it safe? Dr. Anna Banerji, pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Jeffrey Pernica, head of the division of infectious disease in the department of pediatrics at McMaster University and McMaster Children's Hospital, weigh in on the safety of returning to classrooms.