Doctor Carballo’s Consultation: COVID in the classroom: Are schools safe? Is it better for children to get infected to get immunized?

César Carballo accompanied by the director of the Joaquín Carrión school in Murcia and awarded as the best teacher in Spain in 2018 and with the Global Teacher Awards in 2021, Tony Garcia Ariaswould address how the de-escalation of the coronavirus in educational centers, abounding in the safety or the convenience or not that children become infected to achieve immunity.

Taking into account that the elimination of masks in schools seems imminent, experts would warn about the best way to proceed during this new installment of ‘Doctor Carballo’s Consultation‘, thus reducing the concern installed among many parents.

Are schools safe?

“It was said from the beginning of the pandemicI remember after passing the first wave, that schools were safe places. Do you really think that schools been safe for our children?” he asked. César Carballo.

“They were bombarded with ‘schools are safe’ when security measures were not taken or the most basic ones were taken, but then the measures that should have been taken. In the face of a virus like this, saying that an environment is safe is taking too much risk. In this sense, in a classroom of approximately 45 square meters and overcrowded with about 25 students, the air quality is already bad in any condition. In Seville, with 45º and poor ventilation, the quality of the air by nature is bad, so we are talking about a pandemic in which the virus is transmitted through the air, security in that area does not exist,” he explained. Tony Garcia.

“There are two aspects that I would like to highlight. It is said that minors are not so affected by this virus, but every day we discover new affectations: baldness problems, skin problems, tingling… There are more and more discoveries and it seems that minors are not so affected, but we don’t know what the future will hold,” he would add.

Is it convenient for children to get infected to achieve immunity?

“Furthermore, it is said that one in seven minors has Covid. I’m not making it up, so why are we going to put minors through that process? We have reached a situation that says ‘well, since it doesn’t affect them so much, let them get infected’. Well, no, it’s not true, because if it affects seven out of 10 students, it is not the same as 100,000 being infected than 10. try to get as few infections as possible because that way there will be less consequences and fewer sequels. And then the issue of transmission, in many cases there is transmission from the classroom to the family and measures must be taken so that it does not happen”, the expert invited by César Carballo.

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