Collected Item: “Daycare declines to take Ottawa nurse's son over other parents' COVID-19 fears”
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Daycare declines to take Ottawa nurse's son over other parents' COVID-19 fears
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news article
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News story about a nurse's struggle to find daycare for her young son. Her son's previous daycare closed, perhaps permanently, he is far down the waiting list for emergency daycare for the children of frontline workers, and then a spot she did find him fell through when the parents of other children in the daycare, two of whom had weak immune systems and asked the carer not to take the child on as they feared he would carry covid19 to daycare from his mother's work at a hospital. She has not been able to work due to the unavailability of care, during a time when nurses are in high demand.
However, the article also mentions that after a story on the situation was aired on the nightly television news, the nurse received numerous calls offering to watch the child for her.
However, the article also mentions that after a story on the situation was aired on the nightly television news, the nurse received numerous calls offering to watch the child for her.
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health and wellness, frontline worker, nurse, children, childcare
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https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/daycare-declines-to-take-ottawa-nurse-s-son-over-other-parents-covid-19-fears-1.4966263#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=CPxRqQc
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Katie Griffin, CTV News Ottawa
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2020-06-02