The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advice for keeping your child protected from this highly contagious version of the coronavirus now and this fall: Mask up in schools and other crowded venues, and make sure everyone age 12 and older in the family gets a COVID-19 shot.īut what if your kids are younger than that? What if they develop symptoms or come into contact with someone who tests positive for the coronavirus? And in a pandemic year fueled by the delta variant, some of those germs may cause COVID-19. It's inevitable that when kids mix - returning from camp or heading back to school - germs spread. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Kindergartner Allyson Zavala joined with other students and school superintendent Austin Buetner for a class selfie in April inside teacher Alicia Pizzi's classroom at Maurice Sendak Elementary School in North Hollywood, Calif.
