As school resumes, COVID-traumatized L.A.-area parents call for return to masking over 'tripledemic' fears amid surge that also includes flu and RSV.
At the first sign of a sniffle or stormy weather ahead Lourdes Lopez keeps her 10-year-old daughter, Alison, home from school.
. Not only do they remain deeply concerned about ongoing COVID school outbreaks, but rampant flu cases and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, has compounded their fears. Among many low-income or multifamily households, anxiety has heightened during the return from winter break, as a contagious virus that enters their home threatens not only the health of their child, but their financial stability and well-being.
He said influenza and RSV are currently bigger threats to children than COVID, adding, “with that said, prevention is the best medicine. So mask up. We’re recommending the masking of students and employees.” He also blamed misinformation for depressing vaccination levels for COVID and other diseases: “This is the time to get yourself and your children vaccinated. It is the best measure of prevention.
While the precise number of cases and clusters is likely to be underreported, the spike itself is telling, Ferrer said. “COVID should now be treated as you would any other virus,” said district parent Carrie Kangro. “I don’t think we should even be testing for it anymore. If you’re sick, stay home. If not, carry on. And get vaccinated.”“Thanks to science, thanks to vaccinations, thanks to therapeutics,” Malhotra said at the news conference, “we are now in a place where COVID-19... is similar to ... RSV and flu.
Lopez, 39, lives in a two-bedroom apartment her family shares with her brother-in-law. She, her husband and her three children live in one of the bedrooms. If her husband, who has diabetes, gets sick and can’t go to work, he doesn’t get paid, and bills don’t get paid, she said. “I live in a vulnerable community,” Baños said. “I’ve seen, around me, many cases and personally I’ve had COVID-19 three times. And my wish is that my children don’t go through that. Unfortunately, even if we take precautions... cases happen daily. If COVID-19 is in the community, it’s in the schools.”She sends her kids to school healthy, and they seem to come back with fevers, Baños said.
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