What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps — ProPublica

There’s also a hopeful nugget of information out of New Jersey. We called the state’s Department of Health to see if COVID-19 had been spreading within the child care centers that had opened April 1 to serve children of essential workers. There have been no reports of outbreaks of two or more cases, an official said.

“That’s more than interesting, it’s absolutely entrancing!” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor and infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “That will encourage us to open the schools. It’s in line with other countries that have not closed their schools, or have only modified their school attendance somewhat.”

Let’s start with some good news: We can say with confidence that children infected with the virus do not get as sick as adults. That has consistently been shown in study after study. “Doctors have hospitalized very, very few children with COVID-19,” said Raphael Viscidi, a pediatric virologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “That’s been true here and true across the world.”

“When we look at the other objective measure of judging how bad is this — death — it’s extremely rare,” he said.

via What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps — ProPublica

Common sense says don’t send your kids to school or daycare while they are sick, unless you are ok with all kids getting whatever it is your kid has, and vice versa.