Keeping children safe in and around cars during COVID-19
Under COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, children are spending more time at home and playing outdoors, increasing their potential access to unlocked cars. Parents who are worried about bringing children into stores or pharmacies might also consider allowing them to wait in the car.
Both these scenarios put children at risk of heatstroke, which can happen when body temperature rises to dangerous levels and it isn’t able to cool itself quickly … 更多Keeping children safe in and around cars during COVID-19
Under COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, children are spending more time at home and playing outdoors, increasing their potential access to unlocked cars. Parents who are worried about bringing children into stores or pharmacies might also consider allowing them to wait in the car.
Both these scenarios put children at risk of heatstroke, which can happen when body temperature rises to dangerous levels and it isn’t able to cool itself quickly enough. A child’s body warms three to five times faster than an adult.
In the past two years, more than 100 children died of heatstroke because they were left alone or became trapped in a hot car. Nearly every state has experienced a child vehicular heatstroke death.
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