The back-to-school guide for fighting common viruses

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The back-to-school guide for fighting common viruses
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Help kids avoid spreading COVID, flu, monkeypox, and other bugs.

Masks are another option. Basically, viruses hate them. Children over the age of 2 are able to wear masks. As, if a child is comfortable wearing masks, they should stick to them.

“I would say the riskiest behavior that parents can have any control over is going to be not masking while indoors,” Taylor says. If a child practices good hygiene and gets vaccinated, it impacts the entire community: teachers, bus drivers, janitors, and those with a compromised immune system. It’s not just about protecting the child and their family—it’s protecting anyone that child has come into contact with, too.Influenza—the flu—is everywhere, and it can lead to serious complications in children. Each year from 2010 to 2020, between 7,000 and 26,000 children were hospitalized for the flu in the US, the CDC estimates.

To slow the spread, sanitize and wash your hands. Do it often—probably more often than you think you need to. And if you have to sneeze or cough, don’t do it into your hands. Crook your arm and put your mouth near your elbow, not your hands. As Sesame Street says:

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