School, Cts: in September masks and spacing
Brusaferro: "Via the outdoor masks, but if the infections go back they will come back"
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July 21, 2021 Mask for everyone, children over two years, teens, teachers and staff, regardless of the vaccine, to be sure to open the school safely and not to have to close it again.
This is the strategy for returning to the schools of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the leading US association of specialists, which still recommends face-to-face lessons.
The protection of the mask
Face masks for everyone, US experts write, are recommended because a significant portion of the student population is not yet eligible for vaccines. In addition, in some schools there is no monitoring of the vaccination status of students, teachers and staff, and in some communities with low coverage there may be a strong circulation of the virus. "The priority must be to bring children back to school with their friends and their teachers - explains Sonja O'Leary, who coordinated the drafting of the document - combining different types of protection, from vaccines to masks to hand hygiene, will make the 'learning in person is safe and possible for everyone ". The indication of the association, reports the Cnn, is even more stringent than that of the Cdc,which instead gives the possibility for vaccinated students or teachers not to wear a mask.
Anthony Fauci
According to Anthony Fauci, the director of Niaid, that of pediatricians is still a "reasonable" position. "If you still have some circulation in the community, and a substantial portion of the population isn't vaccinated, you want to take that extra step that makes sure there isn't a major transmission."
The Cts
In Italy, a recent CTS opinion recommends spacing, but where this is not possible, it recommends maintaining the other measures, starting with the use of surgical masks indoors, but a decision has not yet been made. The need to protect the little ones was also reiterated by the Italian Society of Pediatrics in the new Faqs published on its website in which "Covid-19 vaccination is recommended for all children and adolescents aged 12 years or older". "Even adolescent children without previous illnesses are at risk of hospitalization due to Covid, so they need to be protected from vaccination". And suffering from asthma, celiac disease, allergies and chronic diseases, the Italian experts recall, is not a contraindication.In May 2020, the SIP recalls, only 5% of pediatric Covid patients who had been hospitalized had two or more disorders and 3.5% of them were hospitalized in intensive care. Particular attention is paid to post-Covid vaccine myocarditis and pericarditis. A recent CDC report of over 7.3 million vaccine doses given to young people between 12 and 17 years after the first dose found 4 cases in females and 32 in males but in most cases patients who had in need of medical attention they responded well to medications.A recent CDC report of over 7.3 million vaccine doses given to young people between 12 and 17 years after the first dose found 4 cases in females and 32 in males but in most cases patients who had in need of medical attention they responded well to medication.A recent CDC report of over 7.3 million vaccine doses given to young people between 12 and 17 years after the first dose found 4 cases in females and 32 in males but in most cases patients who had in need of medical attention they responded well to medication.
No sickness
The use of the mask in the classroom, the Italian Society of Pediatrics always reminds us in another specific Faq, is not harmful to children, it does not cause hypoxia or intestinal problems or any type of damage, contrary to what several assert ' fake 'that circulate on the net.