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Navigating COVID-19’s Delta Variant with Young Children

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KQED

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

With new evidence that the delta variant of COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads as easily as chickenpox, questions and concerns are being raised by parents with children under 12 who are not yet eligible for vaccination. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control still recommend in-person learning for the return to school this fall, with both recommending all children over age 2 wear masks at school, regardless of vaccination status. We’ll speak with infectious disease expert Dr. Yvonne Maldonado about the latest on how the delta variant affects children and what precautions parents can take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

1:13.6

Coming up on forum, we meet writer Shuri Saeed Sal, whose journey from nomadic childhood in the Somali desert herding goats to suburban California mother of three is chronicled in her new memoir, The Last Nomad.

1:26.6

But first, the rise of the highly contagious Delta variant in California is prompting

1:32.3

public entities to require vaccination or regular testing and counties to revive universal

1:37.7

masking guidelines. Delta, we hear, is coming for the unvaccinated. But what about children

1:43.6

under 12 who are not eligible for

1:45.6

the vaccine? What do parents and caregivers need to do differently now? We learn more after this

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news. I'm Mina Kim.

2:29.3

Regents with COVID outbreaks fueled by the Delta variant are now seeing rising case numbers and hospitalizations in children.

2:38.0

At the same time, an internal report at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the vaccinated have the capacity to spread the variant in ways similar to the unvaccinated.

2:50.0

All this is raising new concerns, especially among parents

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