Record number of Quebec children home sick from school
According to Quebec’s Education Ministry, over 150,000 were absent from school on November 21.
That’s about 12 per cent of the province’s preschool, elementary, secondary, vocational training, and adult education students. The number is higher than last winter – during the Omicron surge – when health measures were still in place.“If you want to compare COVID in school-aged children to what we’re experiencing now – it is far worse now than what we ever experienced with COVID,” said Dr. Earl Rubin, Infectious Diseases Director at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
He says there are things parents can do to help prevent the spread of viruses, such as not sending your child to school if they’re sick.But other than that, he says these viruses are seasonal and the season is just getting started.
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