How To Keep Your Kids Safe From The Delta Variant

Life Kit

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

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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0:32.4	This is npr's life kit.
0:34.4	Returning to in-person schooling is both a relief and a source of great anxiety for a lot
0:39.1	of parents this year.
0:40.6	The pandemic is still happening.
0:42.3	The Delta variant is surging and millions of children are too young to get a COVID-19
0:46.4	vaccine.
0:47.4	The news changes fast.
0:48.9	Updates on vaccine trials and breakthrough infections seem to roll in every day, but
0:52.9	there's still a lot the whole family can do to stay as safe as possible.
0:56.8	I'm Andy Tegel, one of the producers of this show, and in this episode of Life Kit, we'll
1:00.5	talk to NPR Health Reporter Ping Huang.
1:03.2	She talked with public health experts, all parents themselves, to see how they're thinking
1:06.8	through sending their kids back to school.
1:09.1	After the break, she'll share their tips.
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