"Make our children smile".
This is the slogan of the French Pediatric Society (SFP) which, in a press release published this Friday on its website, asks that children attending primary school be exempt from wearing a mask at school, inside and outside for the end of the school year.
Supported by the French Association of Pediatrics (AFPA), the National Professional Pediatric Council (CNPP) and the Pediatric Infectious Pathology Group (GPIP), the SFP wants to take advantage of the lifting of the obligation to wear a mask at the outside to release the little kids at school.
The pediatric medical community relies on the low figures of positive saliva tests carried out at school (0.17% against 1.19% in asymptomatic subjects in the general population) and on the Belgian and English examples, two countries in which children have not been wearing masks in primary school for several weeks. The press release, signed by the president of the SFP, Christèle Gras-Le Guen, specifies that the wearing of the mask "did not cause any pathology or concern for the physical health of young children", but that the pain that it generates becomes useless with the strong heat which is expected.
The SFP also argues that "finishing the school year" unmasked "would also be a positive and soothing message for children very little concerned by the direct effects of COVID but who have nevertheless suffered greatly from the indirect effects on their mental health".
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