Back-to-school FAQs on children’s health & COVID-19: Delta variant, preventing infection, testing and international examples

By Joanna-Trees Merckx, Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
Dimitri Van der Linden, Clinical professor, Pediatric Department, Université catholique de Louvain
Jay Kaufman, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University

With no vaccination yet in children under 12, preventing COVID-19 spread in schools depends on fine-tuning policy interventions according to local epidemiology and vaccination rates.

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