What you need to know about COVID-safe activities with your kids
Advice for vaccinated parents and kids
As vaccinations continue to roll out and summer draws closer, many parents are wondering if it s safe to travel and participate in other activities with their kids.
As nicer weather approaches, parents who are fully vaccinated are asking themselves, what safe activities can I do with my unvaccinated child? Outdoor things is where is going to be at, says Dr. James Conway, Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Dr. Conway says it is still too soon to do indoor playdates with other children, especially if they are not in your bubble.
COVID questions: Long-term protection; overcoming fear of needles
Editor’s note: We will be publishing answers to questions about COVID-19 and the pandemic each week in this COVID questions column. If you have a question, please email it to covid19update@uc.wisc.edu.
Q: Pfizer recently said their vaccine provides protection against COVID-19 for at least 6 months. How will long-term protection be determined? Do we have to wait until vaccinated people start getting sick to know they need another vaccine/booster? And does that mean we can expect to be doing this at least annually, like we do for the flu?
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RAMADI Seventeen years ago the road from Abu Ghraib through Fallujah to Ramadi was among the most dangerous real estate in Iraq. On Feb. 12, 2004, insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a convoy transporting John Abizaid, then-commander of U.S. Central Command, and Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, in Fallujah. Later that month, insurgents attacked three police stations simultaneously and freed close to one hundred prisoners. By March 2004, insurgents were cementing control over Fallujah. Attacks on U.S. and allied Iraqi forces became a near-daily occurrence both in the city, in nearby Habbaniyah, and in the provincial capital Ramadi. On March 31, 2004, insurgents ambushed a Blackwater convoy, set their bodies ablaze, dragged their corpses through the s