The COVID-19 pandemic has had a ripple effect on just about everything, and that includes how, why and where kids get hurt. Rates of some paediatric injuries have gone up and others have gone down, and that has a lot to do with where we are most of the time: home. 
The good news" ?Sport-related injuries, like organized hockey and soccer, are down because those activities haven’t been happening over the past year and a bit,? says Pamela Fuselli, president and CEO of Parachute, a national injury prevention organization. But on the other hand, ?Other injuries, specifically around home safety issues, are seeing a rise around the country, because kids and families are spending more time at home.? 
She adds that the difficult juggling act that many parents are performing?paid work, childcare and schooling all at the same time?can make it very tough to have the level of supervision that you would ordinarily want. ?I think it?s a real contributor to the patterns that we’re seeing.?  Here are some child injury issues to have on your radar. (Note that these are preliminary numbers from various sites, and that country-wide stats from Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada take several years to be collected and analyzed.)
Poisonings
In the early days of the pandemic, when we were all furiously scrubbing and disinfecting, poison control centres saw a spike in calls about ingestion of cleaners and disinfectants. Those numbers seem to have gone down, but ...