Should Children Wear Cloth Face Coverings During COVID-19?

To protect ourselves and others from COVID-19, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a national public health institute in the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services) now recommends ​wearing cloth face coverings out in public. But what about children? Read on for answers to some frequently asked questions about cloth face coverings and children during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

During the pandemic, are the little kids all right?

During the pandemic, people are talking a lot about children.

They're talking about the older kids who've been robbed of proms and graduations, of levity and closure and in some cases plans for their futures. There's been plenty of talk about kids missing out on school, the ways in which they may fall behind, the challenges of remote learning ahead. Frustrated parents have repeatedly lamented the hardships of working at home with kids – scrambling for time, desperate for space, leaning heavily on screens they've long tried to limit.

What has received far less attention, child development experts say, is the impact the pandemic is having on the youngest children: babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners.

This Year’s Must-Have Back-to-School Item: Masks for Children

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Fall is drawing near, and right on schedule, ads offering discounts on backpacks, notebooks and pencils are beginning to pop up on television and online.