Just as sniffly kids flooded Ontario’s COVID assessment centres after back-to-school, the province loosened symptom screening guidelines for schools and daycares. @rachelmendleson on the hard truth about runny noses and COVID in kids: thestar.com/news/canada/20…
What would it take to build a system that keeps sniffly kids carrying coronavirus out of schools? How worried should parents be about their stuffed-up children? Can Ontario solve the runny-nose problem? thestar.com/news/canada/20…
In Toronto, local data on runny noses and #COVID19 in kids is elusive. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
“What we are trying to do is balance,” Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s associate chief medical officer of health, says. We “want to ensure that kids can go to school or child care if it’s safe.” thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Dr. Janine McCready, an infectious diseases physician, has spoken out against the new guidance around runny noses, warning that she is seeing positive cases among schoolkids with no known exposure, whose only symptom is a short-lived runny nose. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
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