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Kids and Covid: Should I send my child to school with a cold – and everything else you need to know – Telegraph.co.uk
As thousands of children are sent home from schools and nurseries, are they at greater risk than we think?
Should I send my child to school with a cold?
The problem for parents, and a major driver of the huge demand for testing in the UK at present, is that the advice remains to keep a child away from school, self-isolate and get them tested for Covid-19, if they develop a fever or cough. Experts stress, though, that sneezing and a running nose is not a symptom of coronavirus and, indeed, that symptom suggests it is very likely to be just a cold.
Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at …
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