How To Keep Your Kids Safe From The Delta Variant

Life Kit: Parenting

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Kids & Family

4.4 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Returning to in-person schooling is both a relief — and a source of great anxiety — for a lot of parents this year. The pandemic is still happening. The Delta variant is surging. And millions of children are too young to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The news changes fast — updates on vaccine trials and breakthrough infections seem to roll in every day — but there's still a lot the whole family can do to stay as safe as possible.

In this episode NPR health reporter Pien Huang shares tips from public health experts — all parents themselves — for keeping kids safe at school.

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0:38.0	survey at npr.org slash life kit survey. And thanks. This is NPR's Life Kit. Returning to in-person
0:50.6	schooling is both a relief and a source of great anxiety for a lot of parents this year.
0:55.8	The pandemic is still happening. The Delta variant is surging, and millions of children are too young to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
1:02.7	The news changes fast. Updates on vaccine trials and breakthrough infections seem to roll in every day.
1:08.0	But there's still a lot the whole family can do to stay as safe as possible.
1:12.2	I'm Andy Tagle, one of the producers at this show, and in this episode of Life Kit, we'll talk to NPR
1:16.5	health reporter Ping Huang.
1:18.4	She talked with public health experts, all parents themselves, to see how they're thinking
1:22.2	through sending their kids back to school.
1:24.3	After the break, she'll share their tips.
1:36.1	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
1:42.2	RWJF is a national philanthropy, working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege,
1:46.0	but a right. Learn more at our wjf.org.
1:54.5	Ping, it's great to have you. How are you? Hey, Andy. I'm doing okay. Let's start with the recent news that the FDA has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. What does this mean for kids?
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