Study: 1 in 4 parents misled others about their child’s COVID status earlier in the pandemic

While COVID cases and deaths have recently been on the decline nationwide and Cook County remains at a low COVID-19 community level, researchers say the study offers caution for future public health epidemics. They urged health officials to come up with policies for schools and other systems frequented by children that don’t rely on an “honor system” for public health and safety protocols, since dishonesty seems so prolific based on the findings of the survey.

Fagerlin acknowledged that there might not be any easy answers or resolutions to this public health quandary, because not all jobs offer paid time off in the event of a child’s illness or need to quarantine. This has been a “perpetual problem, but COVID brought it up a notch,” she said.“If it’s between sending your kid potentially with COVID or not being able to feed your family, it’s a hard decision for those parents to have to make,” she said.

“We need to do a better job of providing support mechanisms like paid sick leave for family illness so that parents don’t feel like their only option is to engage in misrepresentation or non-adherence to public health guidelines during a future infectious disease outbreak that matches or exceeds the magnitude of COVID-19,” Andrea Gurmankin Levy, co-first author of the study and a professor of social sciences at Middlesex Community College in Connecticut, said in a written statement.

The study acknowledged the possibility that respondents who admitted to dishonest behavior also “may have been dishonest in their survey responses.” But researchers conjectured that those surveyed would be more likely to answer in ways that were socially desirable, raising the possibility that the types of lying and deception reported in both surveys are actually more prevalent in the real world than the reports indicate.

Feel so bad for parents who got conned into giving their kids the vaccine

Good for them for not giving their children poison.

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