This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome. Once again to Pediacast. It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the basement of my house

because I am social distancing just like all of you are doing at this time.

We have listeners in all 50 U.S. states, over 80 countries, and all of us right now are in this

together and staying at home so that we can flatten the curve and protect the most

vulnerable among us from becoming sick and perhaps dying from COVID-19 during this

unprecedented worldwide pandemic.

And if I have just a little bit more upbeatness to my tone this week, I think it's because we're kind of settling in.

You know, the first two or three weeks of this, it's like, what?

I have to work from home.

I mean, here I am in the basement of my house

in what used to be my exercise room. Now the treadmill and the elliptical are both

overlaid with blankets as a sound deadening technique so that there's not a cavernous echo in this room. And the reason I picked

this one in the basement is it is the quietest room of the house, kind of separated from everything

else. And also the cats cannot get in here and chew cords, which they are prone to doing.

Little things I didn't have to worry about a month ago.

But here I am, and it's not lost upon me the ironicness of being in an exercise room that equipment is draped over with blankets as we talk about physical fitness during a pandemic.

If you want to know what that looks like, the blanket-strewn

exercise room now studio, I did put a picture of it on Instagram so you can find it easily there.

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