INTERVIEW
On the eve of a new kind of return for schoolchildren, based on volunteering, should we refuse to let your child go back to school? For Robert Cohen, pediatrician and infectious disease guest of the Big Evening Newspaper on Europe 1, Monday, we must compare the "risks" and the "benefits" of a return to class. And according to him, "the benefit of socializing our children and going back to school is so much greater than a minimal risk" of contracting the coronavirus. Hence his appeal to parents: "Without hesitation, put your children back in school!"
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Faced with the coronavirus, "the risk for children is modest, not zero, and they are less contagious than adults, among themselves and for adults," says Robert Cohen, who recalls that "studies are piling up" to say that "children are much less carrier than adults".
Grandparents could see their grandchildren
According to the pediatrician, it is therefore necessary to put the children back in school, because "the benefits they will derive are much greater" than the risks of being infected with the virus, "in all aspects". This is also what Monday morning said on Europe 1 Jean-Michel Blanquer: if there was no return to school, "the social and health damage would be greater, that's what say many pediatricians, (because) children have eating problems, others experience violence. "
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Robert Cohen goes further: while the government has dissuaded grandparents from visiting their grandchildren, the pediatrician and infectious disease specialist sees no contraindication. "I have real confidence in this," he said. "Parents are more likely to be carriers than young children" and should therefore avoid visiting the elderly.