359 - The Back-to-School Episode
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
It's back-to-school time and the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging in many places. Stephanie Desmon talks to Keri Althoff and Elizabeth Stuart of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about how important it is for K-12 students to get back into the classroom, how safe it is to do so right now, how to navigate masking for kids too young to be vaccinated and how to talk to your kids about any worries they may have about returning to in-person learning.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | In some places, the new school year has already begun. In many others, students are getting |
| 0:52.1 | ready to head back into the classroom soon, some for the first time in a year and a half. |
| 0:57.3 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Carrie Altaff and Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 1:04.3 | Their topic, how to keep kids safe for in-person education this fall. Let's listen. |
| 1:10.6 | Liz Stewart and Carrie Altaf. |
| 1:12.1 | Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:13.6 | Great to be here. |
| 1:14.9 | Great to see you, Stephanie. |
| 1:16.8 | So obviously summer has been in full swing, |
| 1:20.1 | but we are headed back to school. |
| 1:22.9 | Some places of the country have already gone back. |
| 1:25.0 | And we're seeing right now is we know how very important it is |
| 1:28.3 | to send our kids back to school. They have really fallen behind. But at the same time, we're seeing |
| 1:33.5 | the Delta variant kick up more. We're seeing mask mandates in some places and not in others. |
| 1:39.2 | We see older kids can be vaccinated and younger ones can't. Liz, how safe should we feel sending our kids |
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