Tips for daycare/camp young kids not catching/bringing home covid19

[Anonymous]

What precautions do you do to reduce the risks of kids catching covid19 if you send them to daycare or summer camp? How to reduce the chances they bring germs home the second you pick them up from facility or activities ?

The only things that I can think of reminding them to wash hands & not to touch face.

[Anonymous]

None. If they catch it from someone else inside of the daycare, not much you can do at pick up.

[Anonymous]

Stay home.

Masks, hand washing every 30 minutes, no touching face, 10 feet from anyone. Wash them off immediately when the get home.

[Anonymous]

The risk of exposure is high, but it also depends on the safety precautions your camp or daycare is implementing, and how good your kids are at not touching their faces, not touching stuff others have touched, and not eating with their hands.

[Anonymous]

Transmission is mainly airborne. Hand washing helps but there’s not much to do if they are indoors with others, unless they wear masks. Ditto for you.

Basically you are expanding your circle to include these families and their contacts. It doesn’t make sense to put responsibility on yourself or your kids to prevent once they are sharing indoor airspace.

[Anonymous]

FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

FWIW, this sort of anecdata is not worth much.

[Anonymous]

OP, I think that's it-- what you mentioned. You either accept the risks or don't send them.

If they're really, really good at handwashing and not touching their faces, that will reduce the risk very slightly. But I think that's more if they are naturally so-inclined. My kid is really good about those things, but I was really, really not (ADHD). Nagging wouldn't have made a difference to me, just made me feel bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

Also, my grandparents neither died of smallpox or polio or measles.

Therefore I think those diseases have pretty low risk and I support letting them back out into the world.

[Anonymous]

None, other than what the daycare is already doing. DD has been going since daycare re-opened a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

The easiest thing you can do is pick a daycare or camp (if you have a choice) with smaller group sizes or fewer kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

FWIW, this sort of anecdata is not worth much.

+1. It simply means no one at the daycare had Covid. I had this convo with my neighbor about the kids playing. She was like “it’s obviously fine since no one has gotten sick.” And I was like “actually it just means none of us have been exposed to Covid.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

FWIW, this sort of anecdata is not worth much.

It's that just anecdotal at this point. Yes, there's been some COVID cases at daycares that have remained open (or that reopened), but there haven't been any reports of major outbreaks in US daycares. The only thing I see is one outbreak within Canada.

So the available data does seem to suggest that risk of spread within daycares/camps is relatively low. Not zero, but low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

FWIW, this sort of anecdata is not worth much.

It's that just anecdotal at this point. Yes, there's been some COVID cases at daycares that have remained open (or that reopened), but there haven't been any reports of major outbreaks in US daycares. The only thing I see is one outbreak within Canada.

So the available data does seem to suggest that risk of spread within daycares/camps is relatively low. Not zero, but low.

Exactly, we'll be able to assess the risk once we see lots of single infections at daycares; if there is no outbreak that is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FWIW my kid’s daycare never closed, has been following the CDC guidelines, and hasn’t had any cases of COVID.

I think like we have seen in other countries the risk is pretty low.

FWIW, this sort of anecdata is not worth much.

It's that just anecdotal at this point. Yes, there's been some COVID cases at daycares that have remained open (or that reopened), but there haven't been any reports of major outbreaks in US daycares. The only thing I see is one outbreak within Canada.

So the available data does seem to suggest that risk of spread within daycares/camps is relatively low. Not zero, but low.

Exactly, we'll be able to assess the risk once we see lots of single infections at daycares; if there is no outbreak that is great.

Again, it may just mean nobody brought Covid to daycare, not that someone brought it but it didn't spread, which are two different things.