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After a Christmas in which, together with the polvorones,

fortunately this week the Government and the communities have unanimously agreed to return to the classroom in person.

And I say fortunately because, as in Sabina's song, we have plenty of reasons.

Two years of a pandemic later, we all show wear and tear.

Including our politicians.

But since the enemy is here to stay,

and sensitive to the complicated balance between physical, mental and social health. and economical.

And if you have to be especially sensitive with someone, it is with children.

With regard to "going back to school",

, while the risks, not only for children but for society, of leaving children at home are really tall.

Children are not "super contagioners"

"

."

Of course, they can.

But there are two important details that the Spanish Association of Pediatrics tells us.

First, that

.

And secondly, the data suggests that, although children transmit the coronavirus, they do so to a lesser extent than adults.

Therefore, it is true that children can infect adults, but

in a bar, in a movie theater or in a subway car.

And not only do we not close these spaces, but we encourage people to occupy them because "we have to support the sector."

And who supports the children?

Delayed learning, mental health problems, and lack of balance

Once the evidence tells us that children are not "super contagioners", that they have never been the cause of everything being differentially turned upside down, what are the effects of depriving them of face-to-face education?

Beyond the evident delay in learning due to

(This is especially pronounced in the youngest), we cannot forget the effect of not attending school for children's mental health, nor the problems generated in families by the impossibility of reconciling caring for minors at home with work parental.

Vaccines, tests, ventilation: the keys to a safe return to school

For the return to school to be safe, it

, such as

, which in Spain are still like unicorns .

But pedagogy and new tools will not come alone, we need those at the top to roll up their sleeves to offer improvements, always in collaboration with schools and families.

VACCINES, THE POSSIBILITY OF GREATER PROTECTION

It is great news that

.

For their part,

, when vaccination for this group began.

However, there is more and more media noise generated by some sectors against child vaccination and

.

We need to continue to insist that childhood vaccines are effective and safe. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States published three new studies on COVID-19 and vaccines. In the first,

. The results of the second study indicate that the unvaccinated have a 12 times greater risk of becoming infected than the vaccinated. And in the third, focused on hospitalized children with coronavirus, it was observed that all the children, except one, were unvaccinated.

Health authorities should redouble their efforts so that these data, and not hoaxes, are the ones that grab headlines

and are effectively communicated among the population. We need to continue to deny that the goal of vaccinating children is solely to protect adults. As we have already commented on these pages, in addition to protecting them and their families from possible serious forms of the disease, by vaccinating children we contribute to curbing infections.

This is the

.

Also by vaccinating children and limiting the circulation of the virus we help to prevent the enemy from mutating and new variants resistant to vaccines from appearing.

Ending the pandemic as soon as possible is something that benefits us all, including children.

ANTI-COVID TEST, IS IT NECESSARY BEFORE GOING BACK TO CLASS?

Testing children in classrooms is essential, even more so if it is planned to abolish quarantines for close contacts

.

When is a

or

?

It consists of taking a sample of all the students of the same class to join them and carry out a single test.

to find out who or who are positive.

In the event that the result is negative, with a single test we have saved system resources.

From the Harvard School of Public Health they go one step further and are especially critical of the duration of school quarantines.

These experts propose that

safely.

VENTILATION, KEY INSIDE CLASSES

To the classic measures that are assumed (masks, hands, distance)

it is important that in schools special importance is given to ventilation. Resources

should be

of old buildings lacking in this regard.

It is true that many centers require expensive works and reforms that are impossible to undertake in the short term, but in any case we can always invest in more affordable tools.

, it can also be to install HEPA filters correctly dimensioned to the needs of the classroom, and of course,

and have the window ajar during them, although now in January it scratches.

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