Balancing Act: Doctors are mixed on whether play dates are OK during coronavirus. Here's why I'm avoiding them anyway
Time's about to get reeeeeal heavy on our hands, especially with restless, bored kids - from infants on up to college students - suddenly home from day care, school and pretty much every extracurricular activity, in an unprecedented attempt to curb the spread of a global coronavirus pandemic.
Are play dates OK to pass the time?
It depends who you ask. Asaf Bitton, a Boston-based primary care physician, wrote a widely shared Medium piece calling on parents to commit to "no kid playdates, parties, sleepovers or families/friends visiting each other's houses and apartments" during school and other closures related to coronavirus.
"This sounds extreme because it is," Bitton wrote. "We are
