COVID-19 and re-opening of schools: Opinions withscientific evidence

Hacimustafaoglu, Mustafa

COVID-19 and re-opening of schools: Opinions withscientific evidence

Mustafa Hacımustafaoğlu (Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey)

Türk Pediatri Arşivi

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Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 55 Sayı: 4 Sayfa Aralığı: 337 - 344 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 03-05-2021

COVID-19 and re-opening of schools: Opinions withscientific evidence

Öz:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 90% of students worldwide were affected by education loss. Moreover, for schoolage children and adolescents, there may be worsening of nutrition, increasing mental health disorders, lack of physical activity, and related deleterious consequences raise concerns about negative habits, child violence, and abuse. Face-to-face education in schools provides positive educational opportunities that cannot be achieved with online education. In studies from various countries, children have milder disease, constituting as little as 1–8% of all laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases, with less transmission capacity to household contacts than adults (0.5–7% vs. 10–20%). Symptomatic or asymptomatic children can infect other people less than adults. Also, the transmission of illness between students at school is less than expected, and the transmission of COVID-19 to students is usually acquired from sick adults rather than sick students. Therefore, with suitable measures, infection risk is less than expected and seems not to be higher than in other public places. COVID-19 measures in schools can be summarized as follows: avoiding crowded/close contact environments as much as possible, respecting the protective (social) distance, wearing appropriate masks, hand hygiene, and some essential protective measurements of classrooms and environment. Measurements should be participatory (students, teachers, education staff, parents, administration), applicable, sustainable, and flexible according to the conditions.

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COVID-19 ve okulların açılması: Bilimsel kanıtlar eşliğinde görüşler

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COVID-19 pandemisine bağlı olarak dünya genelinde öğrencilerin%90’nından fazlası öğrenme kaybından etkilenmiştir. Ayrıca, okulyaşındaki çocuklar ve ergenler açısından, beslenmede kötüleşme,artan ruh sağlığı bozuklukları, fiziksel aktivite eksikliği ve buna bağlıolumsuz sonuçlar ortaya çıkabilir ve bu durum, olumsuz alışkanlıklar,çocuğa şiddet ve çocuk istismarı konularında endişeler yaratmakta dır. Okullarda yüz yüze eğitim, on-line eğitimle elde edilemeyecekolumlu eğitim olanakları sağlar. Çeşitli ülkelerde yapılan çalışmalarda,çocuklarda daha hafif hastalık bildirilmiştir, çocuklar tüm laboratuvaronaylı COVID-19 olgularının %1–8 kadar küçük bir bölümünü oluş turmaktadır ve erişkinlere göre enfeksiyonu ev içi temaslılara bulaştır ma kapasiteleri daha düşüktür (%10–20’e karşılık %0.5–7). Erişkinlerlekarşılaştırıldığında, semptomatik ve asemptomatik çocuklar, diğerkişileri daha düşük oranda enfekte ederler. Ayrıca, hastalığın okuldaöğrenciler arasında bulaşması, beklenenden daha düşük düzeydedirve COVID-19, öğrencilere genellikle hasta öğrencilerden çok, hastaerişkinlerden geçmektedir. Bu nedenle, uygun önlemler alındığında,okulda enfeksiyon riski beklenenden daha düşüktür ve diğer kamusalalanlara göre daha yüksek görünmemektedir. Okullarda COVID-19 ileilgili alınacak önlemler şu şekilde özetlenebilir: Kalabalık/yakın temasortamlarından mümkün olduğu kadar kaçınmak, koruyucu (sosyal)mesafeye uymak, uygun maske takmak, el hijyeni, sınıflarda ve okulortamında bazı temel koruyucu önlemleri uygulamak. Önlemler katı lımcı (öğrenciler, öğretmenler, eğitim personeli, ebeveynler, okul yö netimi), uygulanabilir, sürdürülebilir ve koşullara göre esnek olmalıdır

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