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CNY’s top coronavirus doctors: Kids need to get back to school
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Syracuse City School buses sit idle in the Sixth North Street lot during a time when they normally would be out dropping students off at home Tuesday, April 7, 2020. New York State has shut down all non-essential functions to lower the risk of transmitting the coronavirus.N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Keeping kids at home instead of in the classroom is having a devastating impact and needs to change, Central New York’s top coronavirus doctors say.
“This is a disaster,” said Dr. Stephen Thomas, chief of the infectious disease branch at Upstate Medical University, the region’s largest hospital. “It’s becoming a lot clearer that the risk for kids not being in school is much greater than people anticipated. Our kids are going to be paying the price for what Covid has done to socialization and in-person learning long af
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Actually, plenty of information is out there about “
what’s in it.”
Upon entering a vaccination center, you’re handed a multi-page fact sheet that, among many other things, lists the chemicals about to be plunged into your arm.
The first two COVID vaccines are roughly the same recipe, adjusted for proportions and tiny details: mRNA, 4 fats (including cholesterol), a pinch of sugar, and a few salts. No eggs, preservatives, ricin, or leechee nut extract. (See The First COVID-19 Vaccines: What’s mRNA Got to do With it?) Ingredient lists for hot dogs and chicken nuggets are far longer and complex.