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Bus wheels turn off and off — While typing this, a 2-year-old child sleeping in the next room is quietly praying not to wake up from a nap. He is returning home from day care. That’s because another child in his classroom tested positive for Covid a second time in less than three weeks. This resulted in a compulsory quarantine period of 5 days for the entire group. Follow the latest CDC guidelines.
A month ago, for almost two years in the pandemic, neither of my children needed to be quarantined. Even when the nursery center did not have access to the vaccine When Delta swept across the country. Covid was relatively few It is a case in day care, and there is no case in the classroom. Then Omicron came. Now my 2-year-old kid spent most of January morning watching a “working car show” on his couch at home.
The set under 5 is the largest group of people who are not yet vaccinated — At least a few more weeks. Pfizer and BioNTech today requested the FDA to approve a vaccine for children aged 6 months to 5 years. However, the immune response in clinical trials is sluggish. Even with approval, it will take several months before this group is considered fully vaccinated.
Until then, the Covid protocol for sets under the age of 5 has proven to be the trickiest terrain in a pandemic. My son’s CDC protocol is generally less risky, but still more stringent than the protocol for older children.
“What a preschooler in the United States experienced this winter was hell,” said Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, about an infant center that was closed during the Omicron surge.
Following the CDC guidance for school-aged children from kindergarten to high school, about 12 states have moved to a test-to-stay approach to primary and high school. As long as they are negative, they will stay in school after exposure. Massachusetts also offers test-to-stay child care centers, but in most states, infant centers procure their own tests and navigate guidance.
Vaccines for younger children may lead more states to change their guidance. Ibukun Kalu, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Duke University Medical Center, said it is difficult to design Covid rules for young children because the vaccine is not yet available.
According to her, test-to-stay works in a kindergarten to high school environment, and while there are warnings that toddlers aren’t necessarily the most hard-working maskers, they can also work in day care and kindergarten. In any case, flexibility is key. “We don’t want to put the burden of society on the youngest children as they grow up,” Cal said.
The day care pandemic protocol is much more stringent than what is needed for other dangerous and dreaded respiratory illnesses. C. Buddy Kulich, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said. “We know that in the case of flu or RSV, the virus is sent back to day care with the virus in the nose,” Kleech said. “We did it against all respiratory viruses, even catastrophic viruses.”
Our day care does not isolate the class if the child has a runny nose or fever, but the Covid test is negative. They can come back when the fever is gone for 24 hours.
And as long as hospital systems and healthcare providers continue to be overwhelmed by Covid’s cases, these stricter protocols still make sense. Kulich said. Younger children are not at great risk to each other, but can bring asymptomatic spread to vulnerable adults. “I haven’t yet admitted a classroom for preschoolers who are all infected with Covid,” Creech said.
But Gandhi argues that, like any other illness, young children should be allowed to stay in class if they do not show symptoms of Covid. She claims that even the test-to-stay strategy is costly and burdensome. Vaccines can be used to protect teachers and the elderly. She points out that the CDC has changed guidance for children over the age of five, despite low vaccine intake within the group. According to a federal data review by the Kaiser Family Foundation, less than 20 percent of US children aged 5 to 11 years are fully vaccinated.
“Keeping a two-year-old child at home doesn’t change anything,” Gandhi said. This means that closing a day care center when young children test positive will not hurt the pandemic trajectory.
Well, it may not make a dent in the number of El Paso incidents, but it certainly upset our lives this week. At some point this afternoon, our 2-year-old kid woke up. We had lunch together, and then my mother-in-law came back today for the second time to see him.
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Historically, black colleges were threatened by bombs on the second day of the week and the third in 2022. After receiving at least 6 threatening messages on Monday, more than 12 HBCUs received the threat today. In many schools, students and staff were evacuated to their designated locations until classes were canceled and full permission was given by the authorities.
“We are aware of the threat of a series of bombs across the country and are working with law enforcement agencies to address the potential threat,” the FBI said in a statement. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also involved.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mallorcas last week met with more than 40 HBCU presidents on campus security and security under the threat of a series of bombs.
Ivory Toldson, a professor at Howard University and executive director of the Obama era of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges, said the incident created a tense atmosphere on the HBCU campus. “Fear and confusion are mixed, but knowing that, we must ensure that we keep ourselves strong through it,” he said.
“We all know that domestic terrorism is a reality and there are people with different abilities,” Toldson said. “You never know. You always have that threat behind your mind, if this is really true, it’s organized by people who can actually pull it off. What if, so that’s a real horror. “
Toldson also said that the additional cost of cleaning the campus due to these threats could be “a fairly heavy burden for many HBCUs.” “This surge in threat to HBCUs puts additional strain on campuses and communities that were already under great stress as they seek to act safely during a pandemic,” Thompson said in a statement.
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President Putin attended a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow, saying Russian officials had “analyzed the written response” by the United States.
“We did not see an appropriate response to our key concerns. NATO’s non-expansion, refusal to deploy. [an] It is an offensive weapon adjacent to the Russian border and will bring the alliance’s military infrastructure back to what it was in 1997, when the treaty between Russia and NATO was signed, “Putin said.
Putin, in his first public statement on a written response from the United States, attacked the United States violently, claiming that U.S. officials “don’t care too much about Ukraine’s security” and “hindering Russia’s development.” It just uses Ukraine as its “tool”. .. “
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