Child care programs not associated with Covid-19 spread, large study finds. - TODAYshow
, but the study said that the children in the surveyed day cares did not wear masks, though staff members did. The study also primarily focused on spread outside of the child care facility, looking at whether children were spreading to family members instead of child care employees.
"Our study doesn’t fully answer the question of whether to reopen child care or not — we don’t have data on children’s risk, and local levels of community spread matter a lot," said Walter Gilliam, Ph.D., the study's lead author and the director of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
While child care workers may not have been at risk in their workplace, they were not unaffected by the pandemic. The study found that Black, Latino and Native American child care providers were more likely to test positive for COVID-19 and be hospitalized for it. In counties with higher rates of coronavirus deaths, child care workers were more likely to contract the virus.
"While plenty of U.S. child care workers contracted COVID-19 in May and June, it wasn’t driven by whether they were working with children or not," Gilliam said in a press release. Lynette Fraga, Ph.D., the CEO of Child Care Aware of America , which participated in the study and offered recommendations based on its results, said that the study shows that it can be
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