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Children’s Health in Daycare: How to Manage a Viral Outbreak?

Managing a daycare brimming with children must be one of the most blissful jobs that one viral infection can ruin! How do you manage it? Read on!
Yashika Sruthi
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Yashika Sruthi
Children’s Health in Daycare: How to Manage a Viral Outbreak?

Introduction

In our boxed-in offices and WFH style, we all yearn for a good social life. But where does it all start? Let’s take it all the way back to daycares! Daycares are where babies meet people outside their family for the first time, and bonds are first forged. Babies running around, playing with blocks, and trying to put Legos in their mouths truly put a smile on our faces just by imagining it, but there’s one big downside.

These environments can also be breeding grounds for germs and illnesses because of all the close contact, saliva, shared items, and underdeveloped immune systems. Children's health in day-care is quite an overlooked part of healthcare, and we’re here to shed light on it.

So, let’s look at the challenges of day-care contagion and what can be done to prevent it!