The list of U.S. parents’ pandemic burdens this winter is longer and more chaotic than ever: More kids have been infected with the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, despite scrupulous safety measures. Outbreaks have occurred in staff-strained schools and daycare centers. Many have faced dreaded returns to remote learning. COVID vaccine boosters remain unauthorized for most children under age 12. Vaccines are not yet authorized for children under age five.
Seventy percent of mothers and 54 percent of fathers report feeling overwhelmed in the past two weeks, according to Calarco’s latest findings from an ongoing national online survey of more than 2,000 randomly sampled U.S. parents of children younger than 18 years old. Robert Cotto, Jr., an education researcher and lecturer at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., has also studied the effects of the pandemic on parents—and he agrees with Calarco. Key government responses have included distributing free tests and masks through local community centers or schools. But that is “a very low-level response,” Cotto says.
School policies and COVID safety requirements make testing shortages especially challenging. Elaine Haber was on vacation with her family when she received an e-mail from her daughter’s elementary school in Los Angeles announcing that a negative PCR result for the coronavirus was required for students before returning to school the following week. She says she spent a week frantically hunting for a test appointment, eventually succeeding just hours before school was to resume.
Finding and buying tests requires resources. So the families who get tests are often those with more socioeconomic advantages, notes economist Gema Zamarro of the University of Arkansas. A December 2020 preprint study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, probed this issue. It surveyed 316 Americans who were part of a randomized, representative sample recruited from Florida, Illinois, and Maryland, and who said they had needed a Covid-19 test within the past two weeks.
Does anyone clip exist of public health experts discussing the mental health crisis afoot in the USA right now? Plans to deal with it? The kids mental health?!
Parents must fulfill their responsibility to their children’s and remain positive, that this pandemic will pass in due time. Vaccinate themselves and their children. Order FREE MASKS. Get boosted as required. Professor Isagholian, virology, immunology
Well, no wonder tbh
That’s what happens when it goes 671 days instead of 15.
When the movie Don't look up is real life.
Supposedly developed nation USA is not able to arrange timely and quick covid tests for citizens? In India it happens smoothly, quickly and in a cost effective way.
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