#parent | #kids | Why children and teens with symptoms should get a COVID-19 test, even if you think it’s just a cough | #covid19 | #kids | #childern

[ad_1] Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Victorian teenager holidaying on the NSW South Coast has been diagnosed with COVID-19, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said on Wednesday. The revelation follows reports senior students at Al-Taqwa College in Melbourne are now considered the main source of Victoria’s second-biggest COVID-19 cluster….

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#parent | #kids | ‘A lot of the kids are struggling’: how Covid-19 has changed life in Melbourne’s towers | Australia news | #covid19 | #kids | #childern

[ad_1] This is the fifth in a six-part series on life inside Melbourne’s high-rise public housing. Read the fourth part here. When Australia began to go into different stages of lockdown earlier this year in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, social media fed rumours that were as infectious in Melbourne’s…

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#parent | #kids | #parent | #kids | ‘I don’t feel I can say no’: parents torn on sending children back to school | Schools

[ad_1] After the government’s U-turn over the full reopening of schools before September in England, parents remain divided about whether to send their children back. The Guardian spoke to some parents about their decision. ‘Obviously there is a worry, but he wants to go’ My son is supposed to be…

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#parent | #kids | The long-term biological effects of COVID-19 stress on kids’ future health and development | #covid19 | #kids | #childern

[ad_1] One fortunate aspect of COVID-19 is that children have been less directly affected by the disease. But despite the relatively low incidence of severe illness in children, the response to the pandemic may have long-term adverse effects on the health and well-being of children and adolescents. As researchers in…

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#parent | #kids | #parent | #kids | Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing story is full of holes and we should worry

[ad_1] The message from Prime Minister Scott Morrison is simple, patronising, and dangerously misleading: Download the COVIDSafe app and we can start letting you out of coronavirus lockdown. It’s misleading because there’s no evidence that a so-called “contact tracing” app will be a net benefit. Someone should’ve checked that up…

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#parent | #kids | SC mourns first child’s death from coronavirus as new case numbers continue to soar | COVID-19 | #coronavirus | #kids. | #children

[ad_1] A young child from the Midlands was infected with the coronavirus and has died, authorities learned Saturday, marking the first pediatric COVID-19 death in the state. “It is heart-wrenching to lose a child under any circumstances, and especially so at a time when we have all lost so much…

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