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Discusses the recent article "Association of Child Masking with COVID-19-Related Closures in US Childcare Programs."
- February 23, 2022Source: Famly
New research from Yale University links child masking to a 13% drop in program closures.
- February 07, 2022Source: Learning Policy Institute
Links to article "Association of Child Masking With COVID-19–Related Closures in US Childcare Programs" | JAMA Network
- February 01, 2022Source: Hartford Courant
Child care programs in the United States that instituted child-masking policies in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were less likely to close in the following year, according to a new Yale study.
- January 30, 2022Source: ResearchGate
This survey study of childcare professionals suggests that masking young children is associated with fewer childcare program closures, enabling in-person education. This finding has important public health policy implications for families that rely on childcare to sustain employment.
- January 27, 2022Source: The 74
Child care centers in which children wear masks are less likely than others to shut down because of COVID-19 outbreaks, according to what’s believed to be the first large-scale, year-long study of child masking in the U.S.
- January 27, 2022Source: The Nevada Registry
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic a commonly asked question regarding childcare has been: Is child masking associated with reduced COVID-19–related childcare program closures?
- January 27, 2022Source: AMA Ed Hub
Interview with Walter S. Gilliam, PhD, and Thomas S. Murray, MD, PhD, authors of Association of Child Masking With COVID-19–Related Closures in US Childcare Programs. Hosted by Angel Desai, MD.
- January 27, 2022Source: ScienceDaily
The first-of-its-kind study of child masking, publishing in JAMA Network Open, followed the experiences of 6,654 center-based and home-based child care professionals from all 50 states during a one-year period (May/June 2020 through May/June 2021). It was part of a series of studies aimed at informing policies regarding the health and wellbeing of children in child care programs, as well as the 1.1 million child care professionals who care for them.
- January 27, 2022Source: The Health News Express
A brand new Yale examine discovered that youngster care applications within the United States that practiced youngster masking early within the COVID-19 pandemic (May-June 2020) skilled a 13% discount in program closure throughout the following yr, and continued youngster masking all through the one-year examine interval was related to a 14% discount in program closure.