Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Our focus is the novel coronavirus.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.

Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's

news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.

If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.

That's public health question at jh.u.edu

for future podcast episodes.

Today, the subject is a new report from the Center for Health

Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

of Public Health about schools and the coronavirus

pandemic.

Co-authors Anita Cicero and Tara Kirksell speak with

Stephanie Desmond about the key questions that remain open and the studies needed to answer them.

Let's listen. Thank you both so much for joining me. Thank you for having us. Thanks for having us.

Anita, I'd like to ask you a few questions to start. This new report talks about K-12 education and all of us are eager to get kids back to school.

Tell us what you found and what your main findings in the report are.

Sure.

Well, honestly, I think a motivation for us in writing this report in the first place

was because we would love to see our kids back in school in the fall.

And that's what we all want.

But also families don't really want to put their kids in harm's way either.

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