Children Using Masks in Sports Agenda
Children Has Usual Used Mask in Sports Agenda in United States
Children Has Usual Used Mask in Sports Agenda in This Pandemic Era
INTERNATIONAL | CHILDREN AND SPORTS -
Nearly 25 percent of parents in the U.S. said their children and teens participated in sports teams during the fall or winter months, according to the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.
Sports during the coronavirus pandemic look dramatically different than in years past. From temperature checks to mask wearing during play and few in-person spectators, young athletes have had to adapt to this new normal.
Although the majority of parents ranked their child’s sports organization highly for communicating safety protocols, one in four rated their child’s team or league’s enforcement of health and safety precautions as “fair” or “poor.”
“As kids return to playing sports, it’s critical that teams and facilities enforce COVID guidelines to keep players, coaches and families as safe as possible and to reduce community spread,” poll co-director Sarah Clark said in a news release. “This is especially important as we have seen recent COVID-19 outbreaks among youth sports teams.”
“While most families seem confident in their local organization’s safety measures, our report suggests that ensuring compliance with COVID-19 protocols has also been challenging.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state health department have asked asked residents to voluntarily follow some COVID-19 restrictions, including suspending sports and returning to virtual learning.
The report, which represents a national sample of parents, comes at a time when health experts are suggesting that organized sports may be driving COVID-19 cases in children.
Top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has said that many of the cases seen in schools often trace back to team sports. Local health departments in various states have also found youth sports to be sources of outbreaks while contact tracing.
Here in Michigan, which is experiencing the worst surge of COVID cases in the country, experts have said that outbreaks in groups of young people are more often linked to extracurricular activities than classroom exposure. Additionally, socializing with others before and after sports activities could be helping to drive transmission.
Editor :Andi Saputra
Source : Ann Arbor Info
