Covid-19 studies with children? –
concerning masks for the profession.
-The pre-return of teachers will have
takes place on May 11 and 12. Nursery and elementary school students do not
will therefore not return before May 14. The rectorates will therefore have from May 7 to 14
to organize. Back to school for 6th and 5th year college students is scheduled for
from May 18. Nevertheless, the secondary school students in red will resume
later. (Read our article HERE)
Back to school for a few days
school debate. Should it or not
shouldn’t you put your child back in school? Will they bring the virus, the
evening at home? For Infos-Dijon, the doctor
Brigitte Virey, Pediatrician in Dijon and President of the National Syndicate of
French pediatricians, answer these questions and first take stock of
State grants for masks for the profession, in short supply
start of the Coronavirus epidemic (Read our article HERE)
Doctor Brigitte Virey: At
early we worked with Roselyne Bachelot’s masks, which were,
certainly outdated, but it was better than nothing. We also had donations from
some parents who were in the hospital world and then we had
visors offered by certain companies. Since then, we have
endowment of the State which allows us, each week to go to our
pharmacist to recover six FFP2 masks and twelve surgical masks. This
which means that if we work every day, we don’t have the
possibility of giving it to our patients, which forces us to calculate well. As for
over-shirts, it’s simple, we don’t have any. So overall, we
are under-equipped and it is for this reason that we have so many
Liberal doctors or nurses affected by the Covid-19 or even deceased,
much more than in the hospital. ”
A drop in
consultations
“We noticed
a very sharp drop. At the beginning, the watchword was to cancel all
consultations, except vaccinations up to 2 years. And then quickly the
Directorate General of Health noticed that there was a drop in care
and allowed us to practice all of the mandatory exams for both
the child’s first years and to recontact our patients for
teleconsultations. But 58% of the pediatricians I interviewed told me that they
were doing less than 30% of their usual activity “
For or against
gradual return to school starting May 11?
“First of all I
reminds that children are very little affected. We closed the schools because
that it was thought that, as with other viral diseases like the flu,
children were vectors. However, the various studies carried out in
France, China, Italy and even Australia show that ultimately
children are not vectors. And when they are reached, the virus has been
transmitted by an adult. So that’s reassuring for going back to school. By
elsewhere it seems very likely that the virus will still be circulating in September.
So if we wait until the end of the summer vacation, we will end up in the same
situation than now. Especially since the vaccine is not for this year.
So we’re not going to confine the kids until next year. And then you know,
I think there are more risks in the assembly of parents in front of
schools, that inside the school itself or everything will be set up for
minimize risks ”
New studies
with children
“At the level of
pediatricians we launched a new study in Ile de France which encompasses 600
children. We want to make a new point about the fact that children don’t
are not vectors. At the national level, with a hundred pediatricians
which I am part of, we are going to do serological tests to find out if
whether or not the child has been in contact with a coronavirus. The results are
expected in May “
How to reassure
even more parents?
“I have a lot of
questions in this sense in my cabinet. I give them a very concrete example of
this child from Contamines-Monjoie in Haute-Savoie at the very beginning of the epidemic,
when we tested everyone around us as soon as there was a positive case. And
well this pupil, schooled in Lyon, would have been in contact with 150 children and
all were negative. And then I reassure parents by telling them that their
children of all ages are able to understand barrier gestures.
Gestures that will enter into their daily lives, much easier than for
an adult”
How to manage
children’s anxiety?
“You have to talk to your
children. You have to calmly explain the situation to them. Don’t dramatize. Born
not pass on his fear. You know children are sponges and feel
the parents’ anxiety or serenity. And then in the majority of cases, the
kids want to go back to school. They want to see the friends again “
A kiss for granny and
Grandpa ?
“If we start from
principle that children cannot transmit the virus, we do not see
why they couldn’t kiss their grandparents. But of another
side there is also the state of health of Grandpas and Mamy to take into account. I advise to wait for the results of the studies in progress which I
were talking to you. If they confirm that children are not vectors, then
yes they can kiss. But for the moment we are still a little patient until
mid May »
Norbert Banchet
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