HEALTH RISK MANAGEMENT IN KINDERGARTENS, SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES, DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A HEURISTIC FRAMEWORK
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The SARS-COV-2 pandemic, causing COVID-19 had a specific pattern of spread in Bulgaria during several waves from 15.06.2020 to 31.03.2021. The measures, which the health authorities took to prevent the spread in the kindergarten and schools, combined with several other factors, specific for Bulgaria made them the main driver of the pandemic. In this article we propose heuristic framework as a strategy for health risk management, based on the properties of the virus and the properties of children’s immune system.
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