Here’s a look at some news stories involving young people and physical activity, including organized group exercise and team sports in particular.

The CDC is asking parents to limit carpooling to their kids’ sports events and notify the school if a child has any co-morbidities.

In the drive to end childhood obesity, the pandemic is not helping one bit. Kids need to move around and burn off both physical and emotional energy.

When the threat is an airborne illness, the outdoors is manifestly the preferred venue for sports and exercise.

Research shows that air cleaning or filtration alone is not enough to protect people from exposure to the virus but it can be part of the arsenal of defenses.

Research indicates that when temperature and humidity rise, so does the threat posed by the destabilized virus.

We may not yet know exactly what factors affect superspreading, but we do know enough to avoid assembling as unmasked, poorly ventilated indoor crowds.

Could some already familiar healthcare and cleaning products help with the protection against the virus?

At one point in 2020, claims were made that the arrival of hot weather would cause the virus to dry up and blow away, which was not true.

For those holdouts who still opine otherwise, the CDC firmly declares that children can catch COVID-19, which can make them sick, and sometimes very sick.

There is no way of knowing how many people, children and adults, have spread COVID-19 without ever being aware that they had it.

Kids stuck at home need something to do, and a parent who is grasping at the last straws of sanity might find inspiration anywhere.

Sometimes we need to accept “good” as the best we can do under the circumstances, and let good be good enough.

Close as conjoined twins, obesity and COVID-19 are always meddling in each other’s business and doing each other favors.

People who have gained unwanted pounds due to being cooped up and unable to get enough exercise to use up the calories might find others’ experiences helpful.

For people who always found it difficult to “eat less,” life is more problematic than ever. The “move more” part of the old equation is also disrupted.

We keep exploring many of the ways in which COVID-19 and obesity work together to achieve a synergistic result that promotes success for both of them.

For “herd immunity” to be achieved, the entire herd must be included, and that’s just one of the considerations we’re currently grappling with.

With regard to age, the virus does not discriminate. It also goes after obese people, including kids, more zealously than it does healthy-weight people.

In regard to college campuses, efforts toward the containment of the virus have inspired harsh criticisms, including attempts at surveillance.

One of the big problems with SARS-CoV-2 is that so many aspects of the organism and its behavior remain shrouded in mystery.

The virus makes no exceptions for minors. They can catch it, they can spread it, and they can die from it.

COVID-19 may predispose people to baldness, just as it makes them more vulnerable to developing obesity.

The basic principles of obesity avoidance are relevant to the feasts and festivals of many religious traditions, at any time of year — Christmas included.

The year 2000 was not a complete disaster as at least some useful research came out, on how the young are susceptible to COVID-19.

What the public really needs to understand about the virus is its single-minded sense of purpose. Its only job is to reproduce, and the children are not exempt.

It is increasingly clear that young people could both catch and transmit COVID-19.

For months, a citadel of wishful thinking that children don’t easily contract and spread the virus had been constructed. Now it began to crumble.

The virus has every reason to embrace obesity as the optimal human condition for its purposes, and the harmful alliance works both ways.

The final month of 2020 is nobody’s idea of a good time. As we have extensively pointed out, just about anything that’s good for COVID-19 is indirectly good for obesity, and vice versa. Obesity and the virus are like comic book villains, evil twins who …