#104 - COVID-19 for kids with Olivia Attia

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Peter sits down with his daughter to answer questions from her and other kids about COVID-19.

We discuss:

What is a virus? [1:45];
How did this version of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) start? [4:30];
How does COVID-19 compare to SARS and MERS (previous coronaviruses)? [6:00];
Will COVID-19 come back again after we resolve the current issue? [7:15];
When will kids go back to school? [7:45];
How has the US surpassed China in total cases, and how could we have been better prepared for this? [8:30];
Should have we started to quarantine sooner than we actually did? [11:45];
What about herd immunity? Would it be easier if we all just got the virus so we could be immune? [13:45];
Which age groups are the least and most at risk for getting a deadly version of the virus? [15:00];
Why do we have to wipe down packages that are delivered to our homes? [16:30];
How a lack of preparation and discipline led to this troubling situation [18:45];
Is China to blame for all of this? [24:15];
What did Olivia think when her parents pulled her out of school before it was mandated? [26:30];
What's been the hardest part of this for Olivia? [27:50];
What does Olivia appreciate now that she probably didn't appreciate in the past? [28:50];
How are Olivia’s zone 2 workouts going? [30:00]; and
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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Drive Podcast.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Peter Atia.
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0:46.3	Now without further delay, here's today's episode.
0:49.0	Hey everyone, welcome to a special edition of the COVID series.
0:55.3	This is going to be COVID for kids.
0:57.8	So my guest today is my daughter, Olivia.
1:02.1	This was mostly her interviewing me, but also a little bit of a discussion in me asking her
1:06.8	some questions as well, all pertaining to the coronavirus, but really through the lens
1:11.6	of questions that Olivia had.
1:14.1	If you're a listener of the podcast, and you have kids, this might be the one episode
1:18.8	that you want to bring your kids into.
1:21.4	It has hopefully it answers a lot of the questions that they've probably been asking you, and maybe
1:25.9	these are some of the questions you don't have answers to.
1:28.6	So anyway, I hope you enjoy this special episode of the coronavirus series, coronavirus for
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