(KFTK) – Dr William Haseltine, a former Harvard Medical School Professor, known for his work on HIV/AIDS and the human genome, joined Dr Randy Tovbler to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic as well as his A Covid Back to School Guide.
Dr Haseltine agrees with the premise that education is crucial for kids, "but at the same time, nobody wants to risk their child for this disease."
"Some people say they there's no risk at all to children, that's false. It's simply not true. Some people say they're very hard to infect, and they almost can't get infected. That's not true either. Others say if they go to school and get infected, they won't bring the infection back. That's not true either," says Dr Haseltine on possible infections of children.
Haseltine says he wrote the book, a followup to A Family Guide to Covid, to give parents a good set of "very simple rules to follow," when dealing with Covid.
- How many people in your area are infected, "that's the most important thing, because people who are infected are contagious and can infect you, can infect your child."
- How vulnerable are my children and myself, "if a child has asthma, if a child has had some immunological difficulty," says Haseltine you don't send your kid to a school that might infect them."
- Figure out how your school is dealing with the pandemic, "that's the hardest, because how are you as a person, going to know if they're really going to protect your child."
Find Dr Haseltine's latest Covid Back to School Guide
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