Child care employees, who continue work on the front lines of the pandemic, could provide a picture of what the future of youth sports, summer camps and even school look like.
Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said a great deal of information remains unclear about the virus, but more is becoming known rapidly. Right now there’s no Minnesota-specific data about incidence with children in daycare or in workers, but she says it’s a focus for epidemiologists.
“We’re still seeing a very low incidence of illness among kids, but it’s still not as clear as we’d like it to be what their role is in transmission,” Malcolm said.
Gov. Tim Walz, who has not announced an official determination on summer camps, used an example of a small basketball camp with one adult and no spectators.
“It’s easy to say ‘no’ to that stuff because there is a risk,” Walz said. “The question is: is it a small enough risk that the gains that you get from it are worth doing it and I think that’s exactly the point that we’re at.”