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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is good news or bad news, but my kid has continued to get regular viruses from preschool. She was home for a full year from Covid so it might be partly due to that, but before that she was in daycare for a year and a half, so it's not like she's had no prior exposure.

This is even with masks. I've been told it gets better around Kindergarten and then much better by 1st or 2nd grade.

I feel like this is one of the ways that people with very young kids have gotten extra screwed by Covid because I also think we are forced to be much more limited in what we do with a sick kid than people were before. When I describe how many days of school my kid has missed for for random viruses to people with older kids, they are amazed. Like the idea of having to keep your kid home an entire week for a cold is not typical. But Covid precautions make it really hard to send them back any sooner. My DD had a cold that led to lingering cough in the fall and the amount of back and forth I had to go through to get her back in school (multiple negative Covid tests, multiple doctor's notes and explanations) with the cough was exhausting. And that was for ONE virus. It's really frustrating. I always keep my kid home when sick but the expectation that children this age only go to school when they are 100% symptom free is really unreasonable. No fevers, colds, or vomiting at school. The other stuff? It's a bit of a judgment call but some kids just have runny noses for months at a time, likely due to a combo of allergies and predisposition. What are those parents supposed to do?[/quote]

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