Important question, the cdc tracks flu every year all i am so pleased to moderate this important session. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan Public Health policy research and Advocacy Organization based in washington, d. C. The covid19 pandemic is an immense challenge. Envision a nation that values the health and wellbeing of all. Since the spring of this year, we have held a series of webinars focused on the impact protecting older adults from the arm of social isolation. How the pandemic is concentrated in many gaps. We also cohosted a congressional briefing on advancing Racial Equity. It should go without saying that this is an unprecedented pandemic. The likes of which has not been seen in this country. Seenve certainly disparities in past Public Health emergencies. The pandemic has greatly exposed trust for Americas Health has been advocating. Calling for data disaggregation. We are also focusing on other issues. Calling for investment in Public Health infrastructure. This includes i
Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inab
Lets start off with a topic we talked about earlier in the program. Wrote, why its mostly safe to reopen the schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classroom and the evidence from europe shows no wider harms. As you see the schools opening across the country, has your opinion changed on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . I would say the reopening experience we had thus far confirms and is consistent with the evidence weve had around the world and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12. For reasons we dont fully understand, younger children dont appear to not only are they actually themselves at very serious illness or death from covid19 but they also appear to not transmit the virus to adults and this is counterintuitive for a lot of people. Most of us have been parents are used to our kids picking up whatever bug is going around at school and bring it back to us. The idea that coronavirus doesnt wo
Schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classrooms. The evidence from europe shows no wider harms. Its more complicated with older students. Has your opinion changed any on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . Guest i would say that the reopening experience we have had thus far in the United States actually confirms and is consistent with the evidence that we have had around the world, and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12 that for reasons we obviously do not yet fully understand, younger children, particularly preadolescent children, do not appear not only are they themselves are very low risk of serious death from covid19 but they also appear to virus tomit the adults. This is counterintuitive to a lot of people. Most of us are used to our kids going to school, picking up whatever bug is going around school, and bringing it back to us. The idea that covid19 does not work that way, you know, its
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