The pandemic presents a long list of threats to the mental and physical well-being of children, parents and educators across Canada. To move towards the end of the pandemic and a return to normalcy, difficult choices such as closing schools have had to be made by policy-makers.
Dr. Kelley Zwicker, a pediatric doctor at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), discusses the potential short- and long-term effects of the school closures on children and their parents in the latest Eh Sayers podcast.
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