Some of us are feeling that the safety of educators and school personnel is not being taken into account, and neither is the safety of America’s children.

Decisions need to be made on every level. Teachers are maximally vulnerable, and have to make heavy choices regarding risk, job security, responsibility, etc.

What has been happening in Europe’s second-fattest country? COVID-19 a is wake-up call which makes “tackling the obesity time bomb” more urgent than ever.

The coronavirus situation in the U.S. is no better than it was in the spring, when schools were shut down. Will the teachers be tasked with health checks?

The debate about in-person school epitomizes the very serious catch-22 that schools are enmeshed in.

Even if it were true that children never catch or transmit COVID-19 (it’s not), that’s a lot of adults to be potential victims when the schools reopen.

What that could happen when schools reopen is predictable, because they are happening now in some childcare facilities across the U.S., including Texas.

With parents as the first line of defense against the potential spread of COVID-19, some questions arise.

Body temperature is a maddeningly unreliable indicator of disease, and basing the pass/fail system on it sounds a bit shaky.

Coronavirus neither recognizes nor respects arbitrary lines drawn on maps, so going at this problem state-by-state is a losers’ game.

Today’s post picks up on the discussion of back-to-school protocols suggested in late June by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In the current state of chaos, it is more likely that the medical profession as a whole has only a sketchy picture of what is going on with young people.

It’s been half a year, and nobody has a lock on how coronavirus spreads. It’s estimated that close to half of the people who have it might be asymptomatic.

Research shows that even when people develop COVID-19 symptoms, they are paradoxically carrying the highest viral loads during the presymptomatic stage.

Worldwide, almost one-fourth of all coronavirus cases are American, because many Americans have what can only be called a bad attitude.

COVID-19 and obesity were made for each other, and people carrying extra weight are more likely to get the virus.

With the U.S. losing battle to the pandemic, and the intense arguments over the concept of “Give me liberty or give me death,” some appear to have chosen death.

Before returning to the question of whether schools should reopen, let’s take a moment to absorb and reflect briefly on facets of the big picture.

The idea that children don’t catch the coronavirus; or if they do, they don’t get very sick; and they don’t spread it around much is a misconception.

On a basic survival level, without school lunches and similar programs, a lot of American children are hungry, malnourished, eating-disordered, and/or obese.

For some kids, from ethnic minorities and lower income families, the experience of online learning can range from disastrous to nonexistent.

In quite a few locales, the concept of “reopening” society is a joke because Americans have exercised their right to selfishly do as they please all along.

Aside from disordered eating and education itself, there are plenty of reasons to hope that schools reopen and society renormalizes in other ways.

Educational institutions face monumental challenges in this upcoming school year. How are they handling an unprecedented mess? Can schools reopen?

Vaccine creation is difficult because COVID-19 affects different people differently. There is no guarantee that long-term universal immunity is obtainable.

The idea of a deadly illness being asymptomatic is tough to comprehend, and there is not much clarification about asymptomatic vs. pre-symptomatic COVID-19.

School closings and home confinement steal opportunities for physical exercise. As the pounds pile on, the pandemic and the obesity epidemic feed on each other.

Evidence seems to be piling up to indicate that children have never been safe from coronavirus, even before it was acknowledged to be present in the U.S.

What is actually known about the identification and diagnosis of this potentially deadly disease?

COVID-19 might not respiratory but vasculotropic. To label something as a circulatory system illness rather than a respiratory one has different implications.