Is day care safe during the coronavirus pandemic? It depends. Here are some guidelines.

From: The Arizona Republic.  May 18, 2020.  Cassidy Alexander, Daytona Beach News-Journal.

For many parents, it’s more than a safety decision. It’s an economic one. Many parents cannot work if they cannot send their children somewhere during the day.

Figuring out if that’s a good idea will depend on a lot of different factors, said Dr. Kate Connor, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the medical director of The Rales Health Center at KIPP Baltimore, a charter school.

“‘Safe’ is a relative term now,” Connor said. “All of these things are sort of risk-reduction traits essentially, but none of them will be 100%, particularly if COVID is still circulating in the community.”