Will children spread COVID-19 if they go back to school?
4 years, 5 months ago

Will children spread COVID-19 if they go back to school?

LA Times  

Is it safe for children to return to school while the coronavirus is on the loose? Nine students had confirmed coronavirus infections during that time, and they may have spread it to a grand total of two fellow students out of 735 who were considered “close contacts.” Nine adults in those schools caught the coronavirus as well, but they did not spread it to any of their 128 “close contacts” among teachers and staff, health officials concluded. None of the kids’ 924 fellow students caught the virus from them at school, nor did 101 school-based contacts of the three infected adults. Even outside of school, the six infected people didn’t spread the virus to any of the 1,001 children who were among their close contacts, according to a report in the journal Eurosurveillance. The country’s National Institute for Public Health and the Environment said it received “a few reports” of infections among school employees since resuming normal operations, but none of them caught it from children on campus.

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For kids with long COVID, "back to school" often means not returning at all
3 months ago

For kids with long COVID, "back to school" often means not returning at all

Salon  

In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson’s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. “We feel we will never heal from this as long as schools have no ventilation, open windows, air purifiers, and policies that children and staff can come to school while actively positive with COVID," …

Long COVID is a "public health crisis for kids," experts say
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Long COVID is a "public health crisis for kids," experts say

Salon  

For years, public health experts have said that COVID-19 infections in children are “mild.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common symptoms of COVID in kids are a fever and cough. “This is one of the first large-scale national studies to do research related to long COVID across the entire lifespan, with a particular …

Got cold symptoms? Here’s when kids should take a sick day from school
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Got cold symptoms? Here’s when kids should take a sick day from school

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — As schools reopen for another year, they are focused on improving student attendance. When a child misses school, even for an excused absence like a sick day, it’s harder for them to stay on track academically. If a child doesn’t have a fever, it’s OK to send them to class with some signs of illness, including a runny …

Back to school means back to viruses. A doctor explains how families should prepare
5 months, 1 week ago

Back to school means back to viruses. A doctor explains how families should prepare

CNN  

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. And what other preventive measures — such as sleeping and nutrition — can help keep the immune system strong and reduce the chance of getting sick and missing school? CNN: As families shop for school supplies, should they also pick up Covid tests or medications to treat respiratory illnesses? …

Opinion: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. Here’s why that’s wise
1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. Here’s why that’s wise

LA Times  

A California Supreme Court decision last week reaffirmed that individual school districts lack the authority to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Unlike the other vaccines required for school enrollment in California, the COVID vaccines are unreliable at preventing infection or transmission, providing at best modest protection against infection for only a couple of months. We never had any …

Online school put US kids behind. Some adults have regrets.
2 years, 2 months ago

Online school put US kids behind. Some adults have regrets.

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Vivian Kargbo thought her daughter’s Boston school district was doing the right thing when officials kept classrooms closed for most students for more than a year. “It is very easy with hindsight to say, ‘Oh, learning loss, we should have opened.’ People forget how many people died,” said Austin Beutner, former superintendent in Los Angeles, where students were …

Closing schools to force parents to work from home was simply wrong, says union
2 years, 2 months ago

Closing schools to force parents to work from home was simply wrong, says union

NL Times  

The second coronavirus-related school closures in the Netherlands in mid-December 2020 caused “confusion and frustration among parents” because the Cabinet said the closures were to let parents work from home, not to protect the children, the Dutch Safety Board said in its second coronavirus report on Wednesday. “This report confirms that the school closures were also taken to force parents …

Commentary: Back to school in the COVID era — things have changed, but not the worry
2 years, 4 months ago

Commentary: Back to school in the COVID era — things have changed, but not the worry

LA Times  

Say the words “August in L.A.” and wait for groans from Angelenos. Protected only with masks, classroom air filters and the good sense of children to stay away from one another, my kids exchanged the relative safety of their home for the Petri dish known as school. My children are back in school, and it’s wonderful in the sense that …

Schooling in Covid Era: An Opportunity for Young Students to Become Better Global Citizens
2 years, 6 months ago

Schooling in Covid Era: An Opportunity for Young Students to Become Better Global Citizens

News 18  

As Covid-19 case counts are rising again, there are apprehensions of a fresh wave building up. It is by now clearly evident that children are less likely to suffer from severe illness, even when infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Children who are immunocompromised or have risk enhancing comorbid health conditions must be protected from exposure and provided vaccines which are …

Coronavirus Today: Will COVID-19 take a summer vacation?
2 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Today: Will COVID-19 take a summer vacation?

LA Times  

I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, June 14. Clearing the air in schools While we’re on the topic of schools and COVID-19, let’s look at one of the pandemic’s potential silver linings — cleaner classroom air. “We haven’t had that amount of money coming from the federal government for school facilities for the last hundred years,” Anisa Heming, director of …

Mandate COVID Vaccination for Adults, Don’t Make School-going Children a Scapegoat
2 years, 8 months ago

Mandate COVID Vaccination for Adults, Don’t Make School-going Children a Scapegoat

News 18  

Schooling has been a matter of enthusiastic, and often passionate, debate since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. The second cause of worry is the assumption that with schools being open, children would infect each other and spread it to their teachers or carry it home and infect the adults, especially the grandparents who we do know have a higher …

What About Kids at Malls & Functions, Ask Experts as Rising Covid Cases Bring Back School Closure Demand
2 years, 8 months ago

What About Kids at Malls & Functions, Ask Experts as Rising Covid Cases Bring Back School Closure Demand

News 18  

With a rise in the number of school-going children catching coronavirus in India, especially in Delhi and neighbouring areas, the demand to shut schools and cancel exams is back. The virus spread irrespective of opening of schools,” believes Naman Jain, Education Expert and Director, Silverline Prestige School, Ghaziabad, who is currently running the school in accordance with strict Covid-19 protocol. …

Covid-19 cases rise again: How can you keep your children safe in schools, home
2 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 cases rise again: How can you keep your children safe in schools, home

India Today  

Weeks after the Omicron cases subsided across India, coronavirus is once again on the rise. Parents and teachers can keep a few things in mind to keep children safe both at school and at home as new cases pop up. How to keep children safe from Covid-19 in schools, at home? Graphic: Pradeep Singh Saini Health experts have urged schools …

COVID-19 shots unlikely to prompt rare inflammation in kids
2 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19 shots unlikely to prompt rare inflammation in kids

LA Times  

A student gets a COVID-19 vaccine at a school in New Orleans. The shots are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked with the virus in children, according to a new study. COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus infection in children, according to an analysis of U.S. government data published Tuesday. The …

How Children and Teens are the Most Affected by Pandemic?
2 years, 10 months ago

How Children and Teens are the Most Affected by Pandemic?

News 18  

Entering high school for the first time, starting to write with a pen instead of a pencil, entering the premise of your college for the first time, or attending a fresher party. Time and the situations that entailed resulted in this transitioning category of adolescence and youth to be known as the ‘COVID Generation.’ The lack of planning in the …

School reopening: How to ease children's anxiety and help them re-adjust
2 years, 11 months ago

School reopening: How to ease children's anxiety and help them re-adjust

Hindustan Times  

As schools and colleges across the country are gradually re-opening amid receding third wave of Covid-19, children no wonder are excited about meeting their friends and teachers after a significant gap of two years. We must keep in mind though that after two years of online classes, even coming back to school is a transition that children may take time …

Centre likely to issue advisory on reopening schools soon: Sources
2 years, 11 months ago

Centre likely to issue advisory on reopening schools soon: Sources

India TV News  

With the COVID-19 vaccination drive for children aged 15 gathering pace, the Centre is likely to issue an advisory soon to reopen schools across the country. Sources have told ANI that, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has asked the National Expert Group to suggest ways and work on modalities to open schools nationwide. Top sources have also told ANI that …

Schools are reopening and vaccines are part of the preparation. Here are some of your common questions ahead of the big day
2 years, 11 months ago

Schools are reopening and vaccines are part of the preparation. Here are some of your common questions ahead of the big day

ABC  

Millions of Australian children are gearing up to return to school for term 1, as states and territories begin to outline their back-to-school COVID plans. Experts say COVID-19 vaccination is especially important for children with underlying medical conditions — such as heart or lung disease, diabetes, obesity and severe asthma — who have an increased risk of severe COVID-19. In …

Covid-19: No vaccine, no entry in schools, says minister of this state
2 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19: No vaccine, no entry in schools, says minister of this state

Live Mint  

Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday took to microblogging site Twitter to announce that unvaccinated children in the age group of 15-18 years will not be allowed to attend offline classes when schools reopen. The Health Minister urged parents to get their children vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. "During the meeting, the health minister urged all the parents of …

Chicago teachers accept COVID-19 safety deal, keeping kids in school
2 years, 11 months ago

Chicago teachers accept COVID-19 safety deal, keeping kids in school

LA Times  

A student skips as they arrive at Jordan Community Public School in Chicago on Wednesday. Students in the nation’s third-largest district returned to classrooms Wednesday after Chicago Public Schools canceled five days of classes amid a standoff with the teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols. Their return happened the same day the full membership of the Chicago Teachers Union gave …

COVID vaccines for ages 5 to 11 start today but can schools open safely in the shadow of Omicron?
3 years ago

COVID vaccines for ages 5 to 11 start today but can schools open safely in the shadow of Omicron?

ABC  

Sarah has worked as a teacher for decades and loves her job but this year something has shifted — she is anxious about returning to the classroom in 2022. "I just can't get a picture in my head of how schools can be safe," says Sarah, who teaches language to around 120 primary-aged children each day at a South Australian …

Hospitalizations skyrocket in kids too young for COVID shots
3 years ago

Hospitalizations skyrocket in kids too young for COVID shots

LA Times  

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 among U.S. children under 5 soared in recent weeks to their highest level since the pandemic began, according to government data released Friday on the only age group not yet eligible for vaccination. With the highly contagious Omicron variant spreading around the country, the hospitalization rate in these youngest kids has surged to more than 4 in …

Most young children will be unvaccinated when they return to school during Omicron outbreak, experts warn
3 years ago

Most young children will be unvaccinated when they return to school during Omicron outbreak, experts warn

ABC  

Educators are bracing for another "extremely difficult" year as many students return to school without sufficient protection against COVID. Key points: The Department of Health says children will have the opportunity to get vaccinated before school, but experts say it can take weeks to build up immunity The Australian Primary Principals Association says the sector will face severe staff shortages, …

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies
3 years ago

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are endorsing “test-to-stay” policies that allow close contacts of students infected with the coronavirus to remain in classrooms if they test negative. “Test-to-stay is an encouraging public health practice to help keep our children in school,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Friday. CDC’s official guidance for schools has been that when someone …

Plans ‘being drawn up by schools to remain closed after New Year’
3 years ago

Plans ‘being drawn up by schools to remain closed after New Year’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said that …

Half of young people experience mainly negative effects from Covid crisis
3 years ago

Half of young people experience mainly negative effects from Covid crisis

NL Times  

Nearly half of young people think that the coronavirus crisis mainly negatively affected their lives. The researchers submitted a questionnaire to over 8,000 young people aged 12 to 25 from early February to mid-April this year. Over a quarter of young people in education missed going to class or the lecture hall. Almost half of the young people in education …

Closing schools again unfairly punishes kids: School leaders
3 years, 1 month ago

Closing schools again unfairly punishes kids: School leaders

NL Times  

While closing schools may help reduce the number of coronavirus infections, it would be terribly unfair to the children, according to primary schools' organization PO-Raad. On Wednesday, the PO-Raad, secondary schools' organization VO-Raad, university association VSNU, and education union AOb called on the Cabinet to prioritize education staff for Covid-19 booster shots. Children's Ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer asked the Cabinet to …

Outbreak advisors want to avoid new Covid measures at schools
3 years, 1 month ago

Outbreak advisors want to avoid new Covid measures at schools

NL Times  

The Outbreak Management Team would prefer to "avoid" stricter rules for schools, despite the increasing number of infections among children. The OMT does think it is important to monitor the situation in schools "closely" to see whether children infect too many other age groups. According to the OMT advice, "additional measures" may still be needed in schools. The rest of …

Education union worried about high Covid infections in primary schools
3 years, 1 month ago

Education union worried about high Covid infections in primary schools

NL Times  

Education union AOb is very concerned about the high number of coronavirus infections in primary education. Figures requested from public health institute RIVM show that 21 percent of primary school staff contracted Covid-19 in the past 18 months - much higher than the about 13 percent average among Dutch adults aged 18 to 69, the union said, NOS reports. After …

A COVID-19 vaccine is now available for young kids. Should they get it?
3 years, 2 months ago

A COVID-19 vaccine is now available for young kids. Should they get it?

LA Times  

As any kid will tell you, grown-ups like to make things complicated. Some parents still aren’t ready to get their kids vaccinated, and not all experts are sure that every kid needs to be. Given all that, these skeptics ask, why would you run the risk of getting every young kid jabbed with COVID-19 vaccine — especially if there are …

Here’s what you need to know about the White House plan to vaccinate children
3 years, 2 months ago

Here’s what you need to know about the White House plan to vaccinate children

LA Times  

A student looks back at his mother as he is vaccinated at a school-based COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students 12 and older in San Pedro in May. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced plans to get young children vaccinated against COVID-19, a move health officials say will help curb the pandemic, save lives and stabilize the U.S. economy. “We’re completing …

English school return spurred Covid in children, but cases fell in adults: Study
3 years, 2 months ago

English school return spurred Covid in children, but cases fell in adults: Study

Live Mint  

Covid-19 infections in children in England rose in September after schools returned from summer holidays, helping to keep cases high even as there was a fall among adults, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday. "Prevalence was high and increasing in school aged children during September," Paul Elliott, director of the study, told reporters, adding that increased vaccination uptake in …

Don’t dismiss your child’s fear of returning to school
3 years, 3 months ago

Don’t dismiss your child’s fear of returning to school

Live Mint  

By Uzmi Athar New Delhi, Oct 10 Noting that the covid pandemic has severely affected the mental health of children, healthcare experts have said that anxiety of socialisation can be a cause of concern for students returning to schools as they were physically away from their friends and teachers for a prolonged period. On the occasion of World Mental Health …

What can Australia learn from the UK's return to school during the COVID-19 pandemic?
3 years, 3 months ago

What can Australia learn from the UK's return to school during the COVID-19 pandemic?

ABC  

This time next month, hundreds of thousands of students in New South Wales and Victoria will be back at school after months of home learning. Professor Russell also pointed out the UK had "minimal mitigation measures" in place when schools went back, and recently removed mandatory masks. Zoë Hyde, an epidemiologist at the University of Western Australia and member of …

Schools need to be reopened in a phased manner with multi-layered Covid mitigation steps: ICMR study
3 years, 3 months ago

Schools need to be reopened in a phased manner with multi-layered Covid mitigation steps: ICMR study

India TV News  

The schools need to be reopened in a phased manner, suggested the Indian Council of Medical Research in its latest study. In the opinion piece that has synthesized scientific evidence from within India and abroad on the justification for reopening of schools, experts said knowing that COVID-19 transmission is an "over-dispersed" phenomenon, testing strategies in schools could serve as key …

Coronavirus had a profound impact on children's education. Here's how one London school plans to catch them up
3 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus had a profound impact on children's education. Here's how one London school plans to catch them up

ABC  

Errol Comrie is determined the pandemic will not stop any of his students from sitting exams and "getting a chance in life," but it all relies on them passing another test they cannot study for. Key points: Disadvantaged UK students lost up to three months of learning during the pandemic Kids from higher income households were only behind by two …

Primary schools no longer have to send entire class home after Covid infection
3 years, 3 months ago

Primary schools no longer have to send entire class home after Covid infection

NL Times  

If a child in primary education turns out to have the coronavirus, their whole class no longer has to go home from Monday. However the council, which represents primary schools in the Netherlands, emphasized that schools must receive proper guidance from the GGD in determining who should and should not go home after an infection in the classroom. Over the …

What we know about COVID-19 in kids and the risks of returning to school
3 years, 3 months ago

What we know about COVID-19 in kids and the risks of returning to school

ABC  

As COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to climb, millions of Australian children are set to head back to school for face-to-face classes in term 4 after several months of remote learning. Asha Bowen, a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at the Telethon Kids Institute, said although children were more likely to get infected with Delta, they were much less likely than adults …

Should children be given COVID-19 jabs?
3 years, 3 months ago

Should children be given COVID-19 jabs?

The Hindu  

With schools shutting down and restrictions being placed on movement, children have suffered a lot over the last one and a half years. Comparing risks The risk of severe outcomes due to COVID-19 in children is very rare, and chance of death is extremely low. Even though children and young adults are not at high risk from severe COVID-19, some …

Voorburg primary school closed due to Covid-19 infections
3 years, 4 months ago

Voorburg primary school closed due to Covid-19 infections

NL Times  

A primary school in Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, had to close its doors on Tuesday, in the second week of school this academic year, due to coronavirus infections. "There are so many infections at De Driemaster primary school that we had to send all classes home," school director Ewald van Vliet said to Omroep West. According to Van Vliet, at least ten …

Schools again a hotbed for coronavirus immediately after summer break
3 years, 4 months ago

Schools again a hotbed for coronavirus immediately after summer break

NL Times  

Now that schools are open again throughout the country, they have immediately become an active place for the coronavirus to spread. One in eight coronavirus infections last week, 12.5 percent, was contracted at an education or childcare facility. In The Hague and the surrounding area, 34 primary school classes were sent home in that first week, the local branch of …

How school closures have hurt our less fortunate students more
3 years, 4 months ago

How school closures have hurt our less fortunate students more

Live Mint  

With most Indian schools shut for the past year and a half, children from poor households, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds, are rapidly forgetting what they had learned before the pandemic, new survey data suggests. Previous surveys during the pandemic have also reported learning setbacks, but the latest one comes at a time when children are preparing to advance two …

Don't send home entire class after positive Covid test, experts say
3 years, 4 months ago

Don't send home entire class after positive Covid test, experts say

Dutch News  

Government health advisors are recommending that primary schools do not send home entire classes if one pupil tests positive for coronavirus, Trouw reported on Monday. However, Trouw says, the Outbreak Management Team which advises the government on dealing with the pandemic, is recommending that only pupils who have ‘close contact’ with the affected child be sent home. The current rule …

Don’t send school classes home over one coronavirus infection, says outbreak expert
3 years, 4 months ago

Don’t send school classes home over one coronavirus infection, says outbreak expert

NL Times  

The Outbreak Management Team advised the Ministry of Health to relax the coronavirus measures for primary education as of September 20. This new school year, the rule still applied that an entire classroom must stay home if one child tested positive for the coronavirus. The OMT stated that the Cabinet can responsibly announce around September 20 that from now on …

Do Children Have To Be Vaccinated To Get Back To School?
3 years, 4 months ago

Do Children Have To Be Vaccinated To Get Back To School?

News 18  

In the past one and a half years, as we navigated the COVID pandemic, we have all become increasingly conscious about our health and that of our loved ones. Schools should be reopened because the risk to children between 6 to17 years of age is very low compared to adults. First of all, parents need to be assured that the …

India schools cautiously reopen even as COVID warnings grow
3 years, 4 months ago

India schools cautiously reopen even as COVID warnings grow

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More students in India will …

Vaccinate teachers, children to keep schools safe from Covid-19: WHO
3 years, 4 months ago

Vaccinate teachers, children to keep schools safe from Covid-19: WHO

India TV News  

As millions of children return to school for the new academic session, vaccinating teachers and other school staff against Covid-19 disease can help make schools a safe place against the infectious disease, the World Health Organisation and Unicef said on Monday. Children aged 12 years and above who have underlying medical conditions that put them at greater risk of severe …

Students' lack of routine vaccines muddies start of school
3 years, 4 months ago

Students' lack of routine vaccines muddies start of school

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s a big deal,” said Richard Long, executive director …

Covid-19: Tips to keep children protected in these times
3 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19: Tips to keep children protected in these times

India TV News  

With children under 18 being one of the large vulnerable and unvaccinated groups, it is crucial to keep them extra protected from being exposed to the many variants of the Covid-19 virus. Severe infections and mortality have frequently been reported in young infants and children with comorbidities, largely post 3-6 weeks of asymptomatic or symptomatic infection." As many Indian states …

Rates of Covid-19 hospitalizations for children and adults under 50 reach their highest levels yet, CDC data shows
3 years, 4 months ago

Rates of Covid-19 hospitalizations for children and adults under 50 reach their highest levels yet, CDC data shows

CNN  

CNN — The pace of Covid-19 hospitalizations is surging across the US, with the rates for children and adults under 50 hitting their highest levels yet, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “During this surge of the Delta variant … we are seeing a significantly greater impact on our children and our teens,” Dr. Jim …

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