Kids are coming out of COVID-19 with weird kinks in their nervous systems. Eventually, scientific research might catch up to supply meaningful assessments.

Even if the risk were minimal to college-age youth, their indifference to spreading the virus among teaching staff, campus employees and townies is selfish.

With the kids staying at home due to school closures, and staying up later, with more screen time, there’s also an increased chance of childhood obesity.

Both obesity and COVID-19 see it as their mission to devastate the world, and both believe they can destroy more efficiently as a team.

The virus and the food insecurity landscape conspire to cultivate eating disorders, some of which lead to obesity. The virus is also fond of obese victims.

Events like the Maine wedding and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally lead back to a lone original patient who, for some reason, is enabled to act as a superspreader.

Here are some step families that shelter in place can take to maintain optimal mental and physical health, including the kids.

Any numbers the Centers for Disease Control can lay hands on, that agency will crunch, mash and hash to a fare-thee-well. As always, the fate of newborns is of particular interest. There is some indication that a prospective mother who tests positive f …

If a person is going to be hospitalized because of the virus, the most likely co-morbidity is not heart disease, diabetes, or even smoking, but obesity.

During the pandemic, researchers are taking advantage of this atypical situation to study the link between child obesity and food insecurity.

Obesity and the novel coronavirus are besties. They seem to have made some kind of “ride or die” loyalty pledge, with the dying being done by humans.

Coronavirus is still with us, and this blog has been looking at transmission and how to stop it, especially relative to schooling.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that infected children can be shockingly contagious, even when they show no symptoms of illness.

The CDC is not tracking school-based COVID-19 cases. Could there be a more perfect recipe for disaster?

Since the crux of the school debate is coronavirus transmission, no child’s obesity is going to improve until we get it figured out.

Massive protests were thought to be a prime enabler of community transmission of the virus, except it wasn’t the case.

As it turns out, the protests may not have caused any dramatic increase in the spread of COVID-19. The “superspreader” events tend to be indoors.

Immunity? Nobody knows. Human behavior? Nobody knows. It’s the engine that drives history. Most mysteries boil down to human behavior, and people are crazy.

Since being prematurely assured by authority figures that children do not catch or transmit COVID-19, what a distance we have traveled.

It sure does seem like coronavirus is a sentient being, capable of learning, growing, adapting, and diversifying as it goes along.

The odds of transmitting the virus indoors vs. outdoors are 18 times higher. What are the top events and locations that can help transmit coronavirus?

In pursuit of safe and viable schools, one of the major stumbling blocks is the mystery of transmission. And now there’s a new cause for worry, related to pets.

There are reasons why scientists are picky about rigid categories regarding the definition and degree of aerosolization as applied to the coronavirus.

If it turns out that viable virus can be cultured out of the air — this is big news. Even bigger news is, we might be kidding ourselves about social distancing.

At first, people believed, against all reason, that children possessed something close to immunity to the coronavirus. Then the evidence started to come in.

Researchers scrambled to find reliable and sufficiently large data sets to verify the relative safety of kids. But then, the results started to be published.

The prospects for resumption of full-time in-person school, in most of the U.S., do not look promising.

One argument in favor of schools reopening, some say, is the risk of the so-called “summer slide” — both physical and intellectual — becoming permanent.

How the virus acts and how humans react turns out to be multifactorial, and people should probably know more about that before reopening schools.

Any problem that children ever run into is magnified by also being uncomfortably or dangerously overweight. This includes obesity as a COVID-19 risk factor.