COVID-19 pandemic.In a report completed by the province’s Office of the Representative for Children and Youth and SFU released on Monday, researchers concluded decisions must be made to ensure children “do not experience additional avoidable adversities due to either the pandemic or the public health responses.”“COVID-19 is an unprecedented public health crisis.
Yet it also presents an unprecedented opportunity — to make B.C. a place where the social and emotional well-being of all children is highly valued and where children are the focus of sustained collective efforts to ensure their healthy development,” the report reads.Provincial health officer Dr.